An appeals court confirmed in October, 2020 that Google must open talks with the publishers in France about paying to use their content. Thus this ruling compels Google to sit down with publishers and news agencies to find a way to remunerate them. It differs from Googles promise to pay $1 billion to publishers globally for their news over the next three years, as the French arrangement would involve finding a sustainable methodology to remunerate publishers and news agencies for news.

In April 2020, the competition authority had ordered Google to negotiate with publishers and news agencies ‘the remuneration due to them for any use of protected content.’