Google Attempts To Stop Exposing French Media Articles In 'Copyrights Dispute'...court braking

The daily Le Monde reported that Google did not want to expose articles from French media in a copyright dispute, but the court put the brakes on them.

According to the report, the Paris Commercial Court ordered Google's U.S. corporation, Google Island, and Google France to withdraw their plans to stop exposing content by French media on the 13th local time.

It also decided to fine these three Google corporations a total of 900,000 euros, about 1.33 billion won, if they violate the court order.

Earlier, the French Press and Publishing Union filed an emergency relief application with the court after learning that Google does not plan to expose articles from French media in copyright disputes from the 14th local time.

Google said in a statement that the plan to halt content exposure was a "temporary experiment" and that it had sought detailed information about the impact of news content exposure from authorities and media companies, so it tried to collect data from a limited number of Internet users.

Google and French media companies have been at odds over Google's usage fees for news content since 2019.

French media outlets have asked Google to pay fees as the European Union and EU set up copyright protocols in 2019 to allow users to receive fees for news content consumed by search engines and social network services.After a series of conflicts, with

Google not sincerely engaged in negotiations, the two sides finally agreed to a content use contract in June 2022.

However, local competition authorities fined Google 250 million euros and 360 billion won again in March after the company failed to provide the information it needed to set user fees.