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Google settles French antitrust inquiry into copyright dispute with press publishers

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 21 Jun 2022 09:46
  • 21 Jun 2022 09:46
Google has finalized a settlement with France’s antitrust authority regarding its dispute with French publishers over using copyrighted content, the authority said today.

The deal came after Google improved its December concessions a total of four times, the Autorité de la Concurrence added. It will last five years and can b

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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