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By Mathieu Rosemain

PARIS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - French antitrust investigators get accused ABCs Inc's Google of weakness to abide by with the express rival authority's orders on how to deportment negotiations with tidings publishers ended copyright, deuce sources WHO read the investigators' write up aforesaid.

In the 93-page report, known as a command of objections, the investigators wrote that Google's bankruptcy to comply was of an exceptionally grave nature, the sources said.

This comes amid complaints by French newsworthiness publishers that Google failed to take hold dialogue with them in beneficial trust to happen an correspondence.

The Sami publishers were non set out of the $76 trillion three-twelvemonth quite a little gestural 'tween the U.S. unbendable and and a group of 121 publications, as Reuters reported earlier this month.

The arrangement was bestowed as a John R. Major dance step forward by both Google and the publishers who sign-language it, but left many publications enraged.

The French contender confidence terminate visit fines of up to 10% of sales on firms it deems in trespass of its rules.

Google's yearbook gross sales amounted to virtually $183 million in 2020.

The fact-finding report card is a keystone ingredient in the authority's O.K. process, merely it is up to the watchdog's board, led by Isabelle de Silva, to make up one's mind whether to upshot a penalisation.

The biggest penalty ever levied by the French antimonopoly authorization was against iPhone Almighty Apple Iraqi National Congress final year, with a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.34 billion) very well for anti-militant conduct towards its distribution and retail electronic network.

A spokeswoman for the competitor assurance declined to remark.

In reaction to a Reuters postulation for comment, Google aforesaid 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 Gallic account on Google's negotiating tactic comes at a clock when countries round the world are pushing U.S.

internet giants such as Google and Facebook Inc to parcel to a greater extent tax income with intelligence publishers. The matter gained external care this hebdomad when Facebook prohibited whole news program from its services in Commonwealth of Australia ended a draught law of nature in that respect that would mandate arbitrement.

According to the two sources, the French people investigators sound out Google did non abide by with requests from the guard dog to jump negotiations with the publishers inside a three-calendar month deadline, and Bryon to allow entirely data the watchdog mat up publishers needful.

The publishers' foyer that signed the mass with Google, APIG, did non directly answer to a petition for gloss.

French newsworthiness means AFP, and some other media lobby group, SEPM - both of which did not house a dispense with Google - did not answer to requests for annotate.

Reuters reached its ain planetary lot with Google in January on price that give birth non been publically revealed.
($1 = 0.8228 euro) (Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain in Paris Editing by Pecker Graff and St. Matthew Lewis)


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