Agreed between Google and New Companies about the use of short summaries

Eleven Dutch news organizations have concluded an agreement with Google, in which the American technology company will pay for very short views of articles (so -called snippets and Extended news previews) In the search engine or news overviews of Google. This will end after years of disagreement between Google and the most important news companies in the Netherlands.

How much Google the news companies pays for this has not been announced. The following news companies are affiliated with the License Agreement: DPG Media, Mediahuis Nederland (which among other things represented Mediahuis NRC), the NPO, RTL, FD Mediagroep, Roularta Media Nederland and De Groene Amsterdammer.

On behalf of the media concerned, the License Agreement was concluded by a so-called collective administrative organization, the Organization for Persal Personsrecht (OPP). « There is agreement now, » says director Pim Stouten of the OPP, « that our content cannot be used without any doubt, that a license agreement is required. »

Google writes in a press release that it responds to the new EU authentic rights Directive with the agreement now concluded. The company states that it has previously concluded license agreements « with more than 4,000 national, local and specialized publications in 20 EU countries, including Germany, Hungary, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, both directly with publishers and with collective management organizations and OPP ». As far as the Netherlands is concerned, it has been smaller publications so far.

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Last month it was announced that Google with almost all Dutch newspapers in a different area also an agreement had closed. In addition, in exchange for payment, Google was given the right to offer some articles that are actually behind the payment wall every day of all those newspapers. In a kind of online news kiosk, with the name Google News Showcasethose pieces can be found daily.

Both similarly concluded after each other seem to indicate a rapprochement between traditional news companies and Google. But there is not yet an agreement between Google and other large tech companies that work on the development of artificial intelligence (AI), and on the other hand Dutch media companies about a possible compensation for content from the Dutch news organizations that the technology companies use for training their AI and ‘feeding’ their chatbots.

In various countries, news companies have for this already license agreements Closed. Big news companies would receive tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for long -term contracts.

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