Google and media: agreements, disagreements from Paris to Sydney

While Google has reached a deal with French dailies on compensating them for “neighbouring rights”, the internet giant has piqued the anger of the Australian government while signing up publishers in several countries to its new news scheme.

Here is a look at the situation.

On Thursday, Google and French newspapers announced they had signed an agreement aimed at opening the way to digital copyright payments from the online giant.

It is the first deal since the introduction of “neighbouring rights”, which call for payment for showing news content with internet searches, which was introduced by an EU directive two years ago.