Google ‘seriously damaged’ French media sector, must negotiate compensation – antitrust regulator

Google has inflicted “serious damage”

Google has inflicted “serious damage” on the French media and must compensate news companies for using their copyrighted content, the nation’s competition regulator has said.

On Thursday, the French antitrust watchdog, the Competition Authority, gave Google three months to negotiate with the country’s media companies on the amount of payment for displaying their protected content in Google’s search results.

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