French court upholds order for Google to pay news companies

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A French appeals court on Thursday upheld an order for Google to pay media companies to show their news content in search results.

The Paris Court of Appeal rejected a challenge by the U.S. tech company, which had refused to comply with an order by France's competition authority to negotiate with publishers and press agencies for payments to display their material.

Google had said the day before that it was on the verge of reaching a deal with French newspapers over digital copyright.

 

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