PARIS: French antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet Inc's Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority's orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over copyright, two sources who read the investigators' report said.
The agreement was presented as a major step forward by both Google and the publishers who signed it, but left many publications infuriated. The investigative report is a key element in the authority's sanction process, but it is up to the watchdog's board, led by Isabelle de Silva, to decide whether to issue a penalty.The biggest penalty ever levied by the French antitrust authority was against iPhone maker Apple Inc last year, with a 1.1 billion-euro fine for anti-competitive behaviour towards its distribution and retail network.
According to the two sources, the French investigators say Google did not comply with requests from the watchdog to start negotiations with the publishers within a three-month deadline, and to provide all data the watchdog felt publishers needed.
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