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PDLN EuroHub Statement

We call on press, legislators, and licensing organisations to adopt the following principles:

1. Protection of an independent press by ensuring the Press Publisher’s Right is passed quickly into law in all Member States,

2. Vigorous policing by national and EU competition authorities of any attempt to subvert the legislation (as in France),

3. Support for (or creation of) appropriately enabled licensing organisations to manage licensing of Press Publisher´s Rights at national and/or EU levels,

4. Support for an appropriately managed set of standards in such agreements to apply to all EU countries,

5. Ensuring the full application of Press Publisher’s Right on all platform services using content (search engines, aggregations or other services) and resist Google’s attempt to undermine the Press Publishers’ Right through News Showcase terms,

6. Ensuring any licensing of press publishers’ rights – bundled or independent to Google News Showcase - are transparent and are offered and applied equally to all qualifying publications within and across EU.

7. Review and removal from all such agreements of anti-competitive clauses or clauses which hinder the individual or collective licensing of the Press Publisher´s Right.

Spain Fights Back - CEDRO sues Google

Spanish RRO and PDLN member CEDRO has launched a legal action against Google’s use of Spanish publisher content.

Four new members for PDLN

Google has declared war on the Australian competition regulator after the ACCC proposed a legally enforced settlement with newspaper publishers. In a widely published advertisment the local Google MD Mel Silva “A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”

This has left some puzzled that Google - the $150b pa juggernaut that makes it money from exploiting other peoples content and users seach data - feels able to attack newspapers as ‘big news businesses’ that cant be trusted.

Google has declared war on the Australian competition regulator after the ACCC proposed a legally enforced settlement with newspaper publishers. In a widely published advertisment the local Google MD Mel Silva “A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”

This has left some puzzled that Google - the $150b pa juggernaut that makes it money from exploiting other peoples content and users seach data - feels able to attack newspapers as ‘big news businesses’ that cant be trusted.

Google has declared war on the Australian competition regulator after the ACCC proposed a legally enforced settlement with newspaper publishers. In a widely published advertisment the local Google MD Mel Silva “A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”

This has left some puzzled that Google - the $150b pa juggernaut that makes it money from exploiting other peoples content and users seach data - feels able to attack newspapers as ‘big news businesses’ that cant be trusted.

To support effective licensing of Article 15 rights PDLN hosted 35 publisher representatives from 18 countries to discuss progress on the translation of the EU law on June 2nd.

A new call for tenders was published for the provision of impact assessments, evaluations and evaluation-related studies and services in the field of communication.