Your misunderstanding of the situation is pretty apparent. Google displays snippets, France says pay up if you display any content that's not a title, legally.

Your misunderstanding of the situation is pretty apparent. Google displays snippets, France says pay up if you display any content that's not a title, legally. Google says "ok but we're still not going to pay" and nixes the snippets and only keeps the title. Court says, that's not how the law should be interpreted even though it's a pretty fair interpretation, pay them anyway for the last 6 months and negotiate. Scraping their work is one thing but there's a difference between linking to their work with enough of a description so that people can decide whether they want to read it or not and using all of it wholesale. Also you're straight up wrong about the ads and the news in France. Google has no ads on google news. That's what this is about. If you want to talk about the discovery app that's a wholly different beast and not under consideration for this law. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I personally think they should just get their French news from Quebec. If there's no lower limit on the amount news agencies can charge google then just get an €1 annual license for content.