Who could possibly have foreseen such a turn of events?(!) https://www.politico.eu/article/licensing-agreements-with-press-publishers-france-google/
Google will not pay press publishers in France to display their content and > will instead change the way articles appear in search results, a senior > executive said on Wednesday. > The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of obtaining more > money from the tech giant for displaying their content under the European > Union's new copyright regime, which France was the first to transpose into > national law. > "We don’t accept payment from anyone to be included in search results. We > sell ads, not search results, and every ad on Google is clearly marked. > That’s also why we don’t pay publishers when people click on their links in > a search result," Richard Gingras, vice president for news at Google, said in > a blogpost > <https://www.blog.google/perspectives/richard-gingras/how-google-invests-news/> > . [continues] -- Owen Blacker, London GB @owenblacker <http://twitter.com/owenblacker>
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