Google invites the Government to negotiate

 

Eric Schmidt was visiting at the Elysee to discuss the Google tax desired by newspaper publishers.
Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt was received Monday at the Elysee. He came to discuss the "Google tax" with the President of the Republic, François Hollande, accompanied by Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture, Flower and Pellerin, Minister for the Digital Economy.
The opportunity for the leader of the U.S. firm to talk about job creation in France, the protection of personal data, online culture, but also of taxation. The heart of the debate lies in the fact that this tax would impose newspaper publishers to compensate for the use of their content on Google News.
"The president hoped that negotiations can be quickly engage and concluding by the end of the year between Google and news publishers. He stressed that dialogue and negotiation between partners seemed to him the best way but, if necessary, a law could intervene on this issue, as the current project in Germany, "the government statement.Resumption of negotiations
Jean-Marc Tasseto, CEO of Google France, will then resume the dialogue with the press. Google has also reaffirmed an important tool for media lines, generating four billion clicks per year to the websites of the French press.
But for publishers, their items also contribute to the relevance of the search engine used for more than 90% of the applications on the Internet. After that meeting between Eric Schimdt and the government, they said they "always preferred the path of dialogue with Google."
"The negotiations will now open to allow Google to look really compensate for the press, for the damage he inflicted on the advertising market," said the press association and political information General (IPG) in a statement.
The situation seems to be unblocked between the parties, since last week, Google threatened the French press not to reference their content online.