In a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, French President Francois Hollande urged the search giant to reach an advertising-revenue agreement with French news publishers before 2013. If no agreement is reached, then France could adopt a law that would charge search engines like Google for displaying links to French news articles. Hollande’s declaration that France will plow ahead with the legislation marks an escalation in the “long-running dispute” between Google and the nation’s news publishers.
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France, Google Search for Common Ground on Link Fee
Posted by: David Vranicar October 30, 2012 08:46 AMIn a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, French President Francois Hollande urged the search giant to reach an advertising-revenue agreement with French news publishers before 2013. If no agreement is reached, then France could adopt a law that would charge search engines like Google for displaying links to French news articles. Hollande’s declaration that France will plow ahead with the legislation marks an escalation in the “long-running dispute” between Google and the nation’s news publishers.