The French template for the search engine spending for reuse of news holds guarantee

Last week’s ruling by France’s competitors regulator that Google should pay news publishers and companies for re-use of their content marks a considerable turn in what has actually been a see-saw fight between European regulators and publishers on the one hand and the tech giant on the other. How this ends and what this leads to might set the design template for not simply the news market in France and Europe but likewise the rest of the world.