The US digital giant endorses the injunctions formulated in 2020 by the Competition Authority, hoping to “turn the page” of two years of conflict with newspapers and news agencies.
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“We want to conclude definitive agreements, respectfully with the law, and open a new chapter with the press publishers.” If this statement by Sébastien Missoffe, the general manager of Google France, is not a cease– Leather, it looks a lot like it. Extracted from a ticket from the French official blog of the American company, it accompanies a series of commitments, detailed, Wednesday, December 15, on the website of the Competition Authority (ADLC), tending to create a neighboring right between Google, on one side, and press agencies and publishers, on the other.
If they were to be accepted, the framework of the compensation negotiations, magazines or press agencies when online platforms use their contents (the meaning of transposition into French law of the European directive on the European directive Copyright) would finally be asked, and the force of force committed since 2019 would finally find its epilogue.
Before arriving there, publishers and news agencies are invited by the Competition Authority to make their comments no later than January 31, 2022, in order to “determine if the commitment proposals respond, Appropriately, the competition concerns expressed, “says the CDLC. At the end of this market test, the authority, provisionally chaired by Emmanuel Combe, will determine any modifications, before setting valid five-year rules, as well as the Google proposes.
“in good faith. “
“We believe that our commitments are valid, since they resume the injunctions that the authority has made in April,” says a spokesman for Google France. The American Group is committed to conducting “good faith” discussions and in accordance with the Code of Intellectual Property; to make a transparent compensation proposal within three months of the beginning of the negotiations; to make sure that “nor the indexation, nor the ranking, nor the presentation of protected content” are affected during the tractations.
For proof of good will, the American company makes two additional proposals: the appointment of an independent agent, which would guarantee the implementation of the commitments made, and the possibility of seizing (at its expense) an arbitral tribunal In the event that the trading parties struggled to agree. In the event that these provisions were to become tables, the CBDA may decide to put an end to the grounds committed by the publishers.
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