[LINK] LeMonde > Murdoch + Once-Was-Fairfax?

[Roger Clarke]

[ There was an interesting juxtaposition of stories today.

[ The Gorilla Strategy:  Provided that we retain the capacity to use our
market power to beat content-providers to a pulp and agree to pay
pitiful amounts to publishers, that's alright.  Pass a platform-specific
law???  <Spit>. ]

[ Le Monde, assuming it sustains the public's belief that it delivers
quality news, commentary and style, may get by - at least as long as
Google's much-vaunted translation software produces low-grade output. ]

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Google seals content payment deal with French news publishers
Mathieu Rosemain
itNews
Jan 22 2021
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/google-seals-content-payment-deal-with-french-news-publishers-560049

Google and a French publishers' lobby said on Thursday they had agreed a
copyright framework under which the US tech giant will pay news
publishers for content online, in a first for Europe.
...
Google has so far only signed licensing agreements with a few
publications in France, including national daily newspapers Le Monde and
Le Figaro. These take into account the framework agreed with APIG, a
Google spokesman said.
[ Comment deleted about blowing the house down. ]
...
The deal follows months of bargaining between Google, French publishers
and news agencies over how to apply revamped EU copyright rules, which
allow publishers to demand a fee from online platforms showing extracts
of their news.

The world's biggest search engine initially fought against the idea of
paying publishers for content, saying their websites benefited from
greater traffic brought by Google.

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Google threatens to withdraw search engine in Australia
Justin Hendry
itNews
Jan 22 2021
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/google-threatens-to-withdraw-search-engine-in-australia-560068

Google has threatened to stop making its search engine available in
Australia if the federal government’s landmark mandatory media
bargaining law passes in its current form.
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