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    France accuses Google of flouting EU copyright law meant to help news publishers

    by Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2019 4 minutes

    France has accused American internet giant Google of ignoring "the spirit and the letter" of a Europe-wide copyright law aimed at giving publishers a bigger cut of the economic benefit from online news.

    French President Emmanuel Macron and the country's lawmakers say they are now looking to sanction Google for adopting what they consider strongarm tactics to avoid paying to publish excerpts from European publications on Google News.

    France is the first European country to put the European Union's Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on its statute books, taking effect at the end of October. The European Parliament adopted the directive in March, giving member states two years to pass legislation upholding its requirements.

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