{"id":27878,"date":"2023-03-29T22:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T22:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2023\/03\/29\/google-gets-antitrust-attention-in-spain-over-news-licensing\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T22:51:28","slug":"google-gets-antitrust-attention-in-spain-over-news-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2023\/03\/29\/google-gets-antitrust-attention-in-spain-over-news-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google gets antitrust attention in Spain over news licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/28\/google-gets-antitrust-attention-in-spain-over-news-licensing\/<\/a><\/br>
\nGoogle gets antitrust attention in Spain over news licensing<\/br>
\n2023-03-29 22:51:27<\/br><\/p>\n

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Google can add another antitrust investigation to its stack. This one has been opened by Spain\u2019s competition authority, the CNMC, which said today<\/a> it\u2019s concerned about possible anti-competitive practices related to the licensing of news content by local publishers.<\/p>\n

In a press release it said it is investigating \u201ca series of practices that could involve an abuse of Google\u2019s dominant position vis-\u00e0-vis the publishers of press publications and news agencies established in Spain\u201d [NB: We\u2019ve translated the text from Spanish with machine translation].<\/p>\n

\u201cIn particular, these practices would consist the possible imposition of unfair commercial conditions on the publishers of press publications and news agencies established in Spain for the exploitation of their content protected by intellectual property rights,\u201d it also wrote. \u201cOn the other hand, the investigated behaviors would also include practices that would constitute acts of unfair competition that could distort free competition and affect the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition authority said it is acting following a complaint by the Spanish Center for Reprographic Rights (aka, Centro Espa\u00f1ol de Derechos Reprogr\u00e1ficos or CEDRO).<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve reached out to all concerned.<\/p>\n

News licensing is an area where Google has faced severe sanction in Europe already. Back in July 2021<\/a>, France\u2019s antitrust authority fined the tech giant over half a billion dollars for breaching an order to negotiate copyright fees with news publishers for reuse of their content. That followed the EU a copyright reform, agreed back in 2019<\/a>, that extended IP to snippets of news content \u2014 requiring platforms like Google to negotiate with publishers.<\/p>\n

Spain transposed the EU reform into its national law<\/a> in November 2021, paving the way for a return of Google News to the country.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s news aggregation service had closed in Spain in 2014 after the country passed a law that aimed to force Google to pay a collective licensing fee for the news snippets. The EU copyright reform replaced the prior fee regime with a requirement to negotiate with individual publishers \u2014 and Google News duly reopened in Spain<\/a> in June 2022.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the company also announced it would launch its News Showcase product<\/a> in the country. Google\u2019s News Showcase product was spun up by the tech giant in fall 2020 as lawmakers in Europe and elsewhere<\/a> were zeroing in on making it pay for news content reuse \u2014 creating a licensing vehicle it could use in the looming, inexorable negotiations with publishers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not immediately clear whether the Spanish probe will focus on Google\u2019s News Showcase licensing arrangements or on copyright fees talks \u2014 or both.<\/p>\n

While it remains to be seen what Spain\u2019s investigation of Google\u2019s news licensing practices will finally determine \u2014 the authority has up to 18 months to conduct the probe \u2014 it said its preliminary information-gathering phase found \u201cindications of possible infringement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s antitrust authority, meanwhile, has already pushed back over Mountain View\u2019s practices in this area after starting to scrutinize its news-related fine print in summer 2021<\/a>. The regulatory attention on Google from the German FCO \u2014 which is currently armed with beefier powers to tackle Big Tech than other European countries (thanks to a 2021 update to competition law squarely targeted at digital giants) \u2014 has led to Google offering a series of concessions<\/a> over how it operates News Showcase locally, including an offer not to include the showcasing of licensed content in general search results (which is one trigger for antitrust concerns).<\/p>\n

The News Showcase product provides the prospect of raised visibility for participating publishers, since the offer is for Google to feature participants\u2019 content to users across a number of touchpoints. However\u00a0that could create a disadvantage for publishers who don\u2019t pay Google (i.e. if it leads to their content being less visible in Google\u2019s general Internet search, given its continued dominance of the Internet search and content discovery market).<\/p>\n

Google has also sought to co-mingle negotiations with publishers over News Showcase with what are, under the pan-EU reform, legally required talks over copyright fees \u2014 something France\u2019s watchdog slapped down in its hefty enforcement in mid 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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