PARIS: Google will not pay French news companies to show excerpts of their articles, pictures or videos in search results, a top executive said Wednesday, though it will not display the excerpts without their approval.
The move comes after France became in July the first EU country to adopt the bloc´s wide-ranging copyright reform, aimed at ensuring media firms are paid for original content offered online by Google, Facebook and other technology giants. The new rules create a “neighbouring right” to ensure copyright protection — and compensation — for media firms using their content. Richard Gingras, Google´s vice president for news, told journalists in Paris that a Europe-based news publisher would now have to decide if it would allow Google to show “snippets” of content or thumbnail images alongside search results in France. If they accept, publishers won´t receive any compensation from Google, he said. But if they don´t, only a headline and link to their content will appear in the results. That could sharply reduce online audiences for some publishers, since internet users are more likely to click on results containing excerpts and images.
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