Saturday, February 16, 2013

Earlier this week, we wrote about a strange move by Google: apparently agreed to pay the French company Orange Telecom extra to deliver their traffic - ie the abandonment of principle of network neutrality has championed for so long. And now, another questionable decision: French publishers would offer to pay 50 million to settle the dispute on the deployment of clippings in their search results:

According to the report, the French publishers rejected the offer of € 50 million (EUR 66.6 million) and requested an amount of € 70 to € 100 million instead. He also objected to the way Google intends to make money. The company had offered to spend a third of the € 50 million in the form of direct purchase ads using the rest of the advertising associations between Google and publishers. Publishers have complained that much money depended on proposed sales.

This suggests that Google is trying to manage these payments as more of a partnership with newspapers a raid on their applications. This is not surprising, because if you see that the payment of a license to view protected documents in this case, the pressure to do the same elsewhere, will inevitably increase. In fact, it has already adopted this "partnership" explanation of the case last month cut Belgian publishers


We have reached an agreement to end all litigation and is great news for us and for newspapers. We remain convinced that our services regarding copyright journalists and it is important to note that we do not pay publishers or authors Belgian include the content in our services. From now on, Google and Belgian francophone publishers be associated with a wide range of business initiatives



remains to be seen whether publishers in France and the world will happy "partner" in this way, or if some are awaiting official recognition by Google that they are paid for a license to show fragments of their publications. I hope not: it would be a terrible precedent which would undermine not only the business model of Google, but much of the Web as we know it.
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