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The competition authority in FRANCE, Autorité de la Concurrence, has announced a €250 million fine against GOOGLE for failing to comply with copyright rules.
While Google was said to have failed to fulfil some obligations in the past, the company was accused of using content from press agencies and publishers to train its foundation model, Bard, which is now called Gemini, without notifying either them or the competition authority.
According to a statement released on Wednesday by the French Authority, this is the fourth decision issued by the Autorité in this case in four years.
The decisions, the authority said, come against the backdrop of the adoption of the French law of 24 July 2019 on related rights (transposing the EU directive on copyright and related rights of 17 April 2019), aiming to create the necessary conditions for balanced negotiations between press agencies, publishers and digital platforms.
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