Google Pledges to Negotiate Fair Licenses With French News Publishers

PARIS—Google made binding commitments to negotiate license offers pretty with a broader array of French information publishers, a part of a altering method from the search firm in a world debate over how tech firms ought to pay for information content material.

France’s competitors authority stated Tuesday {that a} new set of guarantees that Google made, together with a pledge to give publishers estimates of oblique income it generates from together with information content material in its search outcomes, has resolved a dispute that has stretched for greater than two years.