The
U.S. tech firm said it would comply with the French competition
authority verdict, which followed a complaint by unions
representing French press publishers.
"Google's practices caused a serious and immediate harm to the
press sector, while the economic situation of publishers and
news agencies is otherwise fragile," France's 'Autorite de la
Concurrence' said in a statement.
Last year, Google it would stop showing news snippets from
European publishers on search results for its French users, to
comply with a new European copyright law.
"Since the European copyright law came into force in France last
year, we have been engaging with publishers to increase our
support and investment in news", Richard Gingras, vice president
of News at Google, said in a statement.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Matthieu Protard; Editing by
Benoit Van Overstraeten and Alexander Smith)
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