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Google has announced that it will remove links to Canadian news from search results and other related products, following in the footsteps of Meta. The company will be removing the links when the law that requires internet companies to pay publishers "for simply showing links to news" for free.Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18, popularly known as the Online News Act, that requires two companies (Meta and Google) to pay publishers for showing links to news in their products. Google has argued that this is "the…

Germany's cartel office has concluded proceedings against Google over its online news service after the tech giant made several changes benefiting publishers, the office said. The office said Google had abandoned plans to integrate the Google News Showcase into general searches and changed its contractual practice to make sure publishers do not face difficulties in asserting their ancillary copyright in response to its concerns. A publisher's participation in the News Showcase will continue not to affect search results,…

Germany's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it had shelved an investigation into Google's News Showcase service, after the tech giant made "important adjustments" to ease competition concerns.The decision comes after Google earlier this year made a major concession by offering to exclude "Google News Showcase" content from its general search results."Google has responded to our concerns and implemented important adjustments to the benefit of publishers," said Andreas Mundt, president of Germany's Federal Cartel…

A Google product that pays publishers to feature their content is almost a year behind its intended launch schedule in the U.S., as negotiations with some media outlets have bogged down, people familiar with the situation said. Post your comment First article A Google product that pays publishers to feature their content is almost a…

Alphabet reopened Google News in Spain, eight years after it shut down the service because of a Spanish rule forcing the company and other news aggregators to pay publishers for using snippets of their news.Madrid last year transposed European Union copyright rules, revamped in 2020, into legislation, allowing media outlets to negotiate directly with the tech giant. The move prompted an announcement from Google last year that it would re-open Google News the following year. "Today, on the global 20th anniversary of Google…