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Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content Feb 7th 2013, 18:24 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Google wins landmark advertising case in Australia Wed, Feb 6 2013 Google to pay 60 million euros into French media fund Fri, Feb 1 2013 Google moves closer to resolving EU investigation Fri, Feb 1 2013 Google's fourth-quarter results shine after ad rate decline slows Tue, Jan 22 2013 Facebook search to generate revenue, no rival to Google: analysts Wed, Jan 16 2013 Analysis & Opinion Profit first casualty in China’s mobile ad war Facebook's search has been found The fifteen richest tech titans in the world.  Slideshow  The Google signage is seen at the company's headquarters in New York January 8, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Andrew Kelly LISBON | Thu Feb 7, 2013 1:24pm EST LISBON (Reuters) - Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council said on Thursday. Last week, the internet search giant agreed to pay 60 million euros ($80 million) into a special fund to help French media develop their presence on the Internet. It will not pay them for posting links to their content. French publishers had demanded licensing fees for headlines and snippets of articles in its search engine results. Google settled a similar case with Belgian publishers in December by helping them boost online revenue, but still faces a dispute with publishers in Germany. "Search engines get more than 90 percent of revenues from online advertising and a substantial part of these come directly or indirectly from the free access to professional news or entertainment content produced by the media," Francisco Pinto Balsemao told Reuters. "The situation is very bad for media groups (in Europe). This use is carried out without the authorization from copyright holders or without any payment in return. So, all aggregators, like Google, should pay. "Google's openness to negotiate and talk looks like a good step that must now be followed in other (European) countries." The EPC represents 26 of the main media groups operating in Europe, including Thomson Reuters, Prisa, News International, Axel Springer and Impresa. Advertising revenues in Portugal fell by 90 million euros last year to 526 million euros, its lowest since 1997. Balsemao is also Chief Executive Officer of Portuguese media group Impresa, which owns Portugal's best-selling weekly Expresso and television channel SIC. ($1=0.7469 euros) (Reporting by Filipe Alves; Writing by Daniel Alvarenga, editing by Axel Bugge and Mike Nesbit) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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