Google Is Paying for More Information in a Break With Its Past
- Company commits $1 billion for content deals on its own terms
- Internet search giant fights laws forcing it to pay for news
Google has begun paying for more information, but on its own terms rather than rules imposed by strict new laws.
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Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the web -- and made a mint from -- without paying a penny.
Australian and French efforts to force Google to compensate news publishers are only the latest examples of a trend spanning the globe. Canada is considering a similar requirement and rival Microsoft Corp. has urged the U.S. to pass a comparable law.