Google's US$76mil deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated


Publishers in other countries will scrutinize the French agreement, the highest-profile in the world under Google's new programme to provide compensation for news snippets used in search results.

PARIS: Alphabet Inc's Google has agreed to pay US$76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show.

The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d'information generale (APIG), a lobby group representing most major French publishers, was announced previously, but financial terms had not been disclosed.

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