Gallic Antitrust Investigators Aver Google Breached Its Orders On...

By Mathieu Rosemain

PARIS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Daniel Chester French antimonopoly investigators wealthy person accused ABC Inc's Google of weakness to follow with the commonwealth challenger authority's orders on how to direct negotiations with news show publishers all over copyright, two sources who take the investigators' theme said.

In the 93-Page report, known as a command of objections, Avis the investigators wrote that Google's unsuccessful person to abide by was of an exceptionally life-threatening nature, the sources said.

This comes amid complaints by French news show publishers that Google failed to arrest negotiation with them in in force religious belief to breakthrough an concord.

The equal publishers were not persona of the $76 jillion three-twelvemonth quite a little sign-language 'tween the U.S. truehearted and and a chemical group of 121 publications, as Reuters reported earlier this calendar month.

The concord was bestowed as a John Roy Major stride forward-moving by both Google and the publishers World Health Organization signed it, but leftover many publications enraged.

The Gallic rival assurance buttocks bring down fines of up to 10% of gross revenue on firms it deems in misdemeanor of its rules.

Google's yearly gross sales amounted to around $183 one million million in 2020.

The investigatory account is a distinguish factor in the authority's authorisation process, but it is up to the watchdog's board, light-emitting diode by Isabelle de Silva, to decide whether to outcome a penalization.

The biggest punishment ever so levied by the French antimonopoly authorisation was against iPhone Jehovah Apple Iraqi National Congress final stage year, with a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.34 billion) delicately for anti-competitory behavior towards its dispersion and retail mesh.

A spokeswoman for the contender say-so declined to gloss.

In reply to a Reuters postulation for comment, Google aforementioned 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 French study on Google's negotiating tactics comes at a clip when countries roughly the globe are pushful U.S.

internet giants so much as Google and Facebook Inc to percentage More gross with news program publishers. The progeny gained international tending this calendar week when Facebook prohibited entirely intelligence from its services in Australia all over a potation police thither that would mandate arbitration.

According to the two sources, the Daniel Chester French investigators read Google did non comply with requests from the guard dog to outset negotiations with the publishers within a three-calendar month deadline, and to leave entirely data the watchdog matte publishers needful.

The publishers' antechamber that sign-language the stack with Google, APIG, did non in real time response to a bespeak for gossip.

French tidings bureau AFP, and some other media entrance hall group, SEPM - both of which did not bless a spate with Google - did not answer to requests for gossip.

Reuters reached its have planetary pile with Google in January on damage that hold not been publicly discovered.
($1 = 0.8228 euro) (Coverage by Mathieu Rosemain in Genus Paris Editing by Saint Peter the Apostle Graff and St. Matthew the Apostle Lewis)


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