Gallic Antimonopoly Investigators Allege Google Breached Its Orders On...

By Mathieu Rosemain

PARIS, February 23 (Reuters) - French antimonopoly investigators take accused ABCs Inc's Google of weakness to follow with the province rivalry authority's orders on how to lead negotiations with news publishers all over copyright, deuce sources who take the investigators' write up aforementioned.

In the 93-Page report, known as a financial statement of objections, the investigators wrote that Google's failure to follow was of an exceptionally serious nature, the sources aforesaid.

This comes amid complaints by French word publishers that Google failing to carry negotiation with them in upright faith to witness an correspondence.

The Lapp publishers were not portion of the $76 trillion three-twelvemonth share sign betwixt the U.S. firm and and a mathematical group of 121 publications, as Reuters reported originally this calendar month.

The agreement was presented as a major tread frontwards by both Google and the publishers World Health Organization signed it, but left hand many publications furious.

The French rivalry self-assurance tin can enforce fines of up to 10% of gross sales on firms it deems in offence of its rules.

Google's period of time gross sales amounted to virtually $183 1000000000 in 2020.

The investigatory account is a headstone constituent in the authority's endorsement process, just it is up to the watchdog's board, light-emitting diode by Isabelle de Silva, to determine whether to emerge a penalty.

The biggest penalisation of all time levied by the French antitrust dominance was against iPhone Godhead Orchard apple tree Inc terminal year, with a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.34 billion) delicately for anti-free-enterprise conduct towards its dispersion and retail mesh.

A spokeswoman for the competition sureness declined to annotate.

In response to a Reuters asking for comment, Google said in a statement: "Our priority is to comply with the law, and to continue to negotiate with publishers in good faith, as evidenced by the agreements we have made with publishers in the past few months."

"We will now review the statement of objections, and will work closely with the French competition authority," it said.

The Daniel Chester French paper on Google's negotiating tactics comes at a sentence when countries more or less the world-wide are pushful U.S.

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According to the two sources, Tommy the French people investigators tell Google did non comply with requests from the guard dog to set about negotiations with the publishers inside a three-month deadline, and to ply totally data the guard dog felt publishers needed.

The publishers' antechamber that sign the peck with Google, APIG, did non straightaway respond to a call for for point out.

French tidings delegacy AFP, and another media pressure group group, SEPM - both of which did not mansion a flock with Google - did not react to requests for gloss.

Reuters reached its own orbicular mess with Google in January on terms that experience not been in public disclosed.
($1 = 0.8228 euro) (Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain in City of Light Editing by Pecker Graff and Saint Matthew the Apostle Lewis)


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