France: FCA investigation into Google regarding use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers
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Published sanction against Google for non-compliance with commitments given to FCA (Decision 24-D-03)
On 20 March 2024, the French Competition Authority (FCA) sanctioned Google for non-compliance with commitments agreed to in June 2022 (Decision 22-D-13). Specifically, the Authority found that Google had disregarded its commitment to cooperate, as w…
SourceAccepted Google’s proposed commitments following FCA investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers
On 21 June 2022, the French competition authority (FCA; Autorité de la Concurrence) accepted Google' commitments to ensure appropriate content remuneration, concluding the investigation into Google's compliance with the right to content remuneration…
SourceClosed consultation in FCA investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers
On 31 January 2022, the French competition authority (FCA; Autorité de la Concurrence) closed the consultation on Google' commitments to ensure appropriate content remuneration. Previously, Google released a series of commitments to the French compe…
SourceOpened consultation in FCA investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers
On 15 December 2021, the French competition authority (FCA; Autorité de la Concurrence) opened a consultation on Google' commitments to ensure appropriate content remuneration, which will last until 31 January 2022. Previously, Google released a ser…
SourceIssued preliminary assessment in FCA investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers
In November 2021, the French competition authority (FCA; Autorité de la Concurrence) issued a preliminary assessment of its investigation into Google's compliance with the right to content remuneration for press agencies and publishers in the Law of…
SourceIssued ruling in FCA investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers (Decision 21-D-17)
On 13 July 2021, the French competition authority (FCA; Autorité de la Concurrence) fined Google with a pecuniary sanction of EUR 500 million. In case of non-compliance with the injunctions issued on 9 April 2020 and upheld by the court on 8 October…
SourceIssued ruling by Paris Appeals Court in FCA investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers
On October 8, 2020, the Paris Appeals Court (Cour d'Appel de Paris) dismissed the case bought before the court by Google and upheld the injunctions made by the Autorité de la Concurrence. On April 9, 2020, the French Competition Authority (FCA; Auto…
SourceAnnounced FCA precautionary measures in investigation into Google’s use of market power to allegedly circumvent the right of content renumeration for press agencies and publishers (Decision 20-MC-01)
On April 9, 2020, the French Competition Authority (FCA) issued several injunctions. This precautionary measure was taken because Google allegedly did not obey the copyright law on neighbouring rights that came into force on October 24 2019, which w…
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