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Google didn't defy the order by not having had talks. They did talk with the French publishers, but the publishers felt Google didn't act in good faith in those

• boudin 5y ago
  To be a bit more precise, Google didn't provide all the information regarding their earning based on copyrighted content they display on their platform. They also unilaterally decided to exclude part of the press and part of the copyroghted content from negotiations. They also unilaterally made the negotiations specific to Google Showcase. The antitrust regulator is fining Google because they consider that all this is a systematic strategy to cause negotiations to fail rather than comply to the EU directive of 2019.