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09 April 2020In France the Google search engine will have to negotiate with the editorial groups the compensation to be paid to them in order to be able to share content online. The French competition authority established this by ordering the web giant to "undertake, within three months, negotiations with publishers and news agencies on the remuneration for the re-use of their protected content".Google has so far refused to apply the European copyright law that came into force in France, the first country to transpose it, last October. "This injunction requires that the negotiations actually translate into a remuneration proposal from Google - said the French authority - which must be applied retroactively from October 2019".