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Google must negotiate to pay for French news, appeals court confirms

Googles appeal against an order by Frances competition watchdog to negotiate with publishers for reuse of snippets of their content has failed.

The Paris court slap-down leaves little legal wiggle room for the tech giant when it comes to shelling out for reusing French publishers content.

Frances competition authority already ruled it cant unilaterally withdraw the snippets shown in its Google News aggregator as it did when the national law came into force, seeking to evade payment.

The company also told us it had appealed the interim measures ruling because it had concerns about aspects of the order that it found contradictory and confusing, adding that it continues to have significant concerns with respect to how publisher rights are being interpreted in the country.Although it also reiterated that the legal process is separate to its ongoing negotiations with French publishers which it said it continues to focus on.

However that initiative is separate to the payment terms it will have to negotiate with French publishers as a result of a legal requirement for reuse of protected content.

The screw is also tightening on Googles freebie reuse of news in Australia which is closing in on its own legally binding payment framework triggering a warning from the tech giant that local access to its free services may be at risk.

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