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October 30, 2012 09:59 pm GMT

French President Threatens to Make Google Pay for News


In a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in Paris on Monday, France's President Francois Hollande threatened to put through legislation that would force Google to pay publishers for indexing their stories on Google News unless an alternative agreement was realized by the end of the year, according to a statement released by the president's office.

Google in turn threatened to stop indexing articles from French publications altogether, Reuters reports.

A spokesperson for the company could not be immediately reached for comment.

Google, as the search giant has argued previously, doesn't believe it should have to pay publishers to display headlines and article l…
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