Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Google could "not free" from the law in France and had to pay copyright to the media under penalty, otherwise, "kill them". These statements follow the US group's decision to apply new rules.
Review of Google's position
"We are going to get into the implementation of the law" imposing copyright on online information platforms and "a company, even if a very large company, can not get away with it when it decides to operate in France, "said the head of state, during the centenary of the newspaper" La Montagne "in Clermont-Ferrand.
He criticized "the position that Google took in Germany first, then in France, which was to say: 'your guidelines are quite nice, but no, it's no, or, more exactly, you'll all we sign the freedom to use your content otherwise we dereference '".
"Will not pay the newspapers"
For him, "it must be said that the desire today of an operator is not to pay the newspapers, not to pay the journalists, as the law has provided, the European directive has planned, under pain of killing them ".
Google announced on September 25 that it did not intend to pay the press, despite the entry into force on October 24 of a law that transposes into French law the European copyright reform, and establishes, like that it provides for it, a "neighboring right" for the benefit of press publishers and news agencies.
"We fought for copyright and neighboring rights, that is to say for those who write, do work to write verification surveys, etc., and that those who publish them can be precisely paid, "said Emmanuel Macron. "This job is not worth anything."