Google strikes content payment deals 
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp reached a landmark three-year global deal
with Google that it said would bring “significant” licensing payments for content used on Google’s “News Showcase”
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Apr 2019: European Council
votes to adopt European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market into law. Directive makes online platforms responsibile for copyright content being shared illegally
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2020: News Showcase starts in Germany with Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit, and in Latin America with Folha de S. Paulo and Infobae
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Jan 2021: Reuters news agency strikes deal with Google, becoming first global news provider to News Showcase
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Jan 21: Google reaches three-year US$76 million deal with Alliance
de la presse d’information générale in France. APIG’s 121 member publications will each receive average of $209,300 a year
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Feb 15-17: Australia-based media groups Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment strike deals collectively worth more than A$60 million ($47 million) a year
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Feb 17: News Corp deal extends to Murdoch titles such as Wall Street Journal and New York Post in U.S. and The Times and The Sun in UK. Murdoch previously secured payments from Apple and Facebook for their news products
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Oct 1, 2020: Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces plan to pay more than $1 billion in licensing fees to news publishers “to create and curate high-quality content”
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Nov 2020:
Google signs deals with French publications – Le Monde,
Le Figaro, Liberation, L’Express, L’Obs and Courrier International
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