{{Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with French President Francois Hollande on Monday as the Internet giant wrangles with Paris over a bill that would force search engines to pay for content, a government source said.}}<\/p>\n
Schmidt’s meeting with the president will be preceded by one with Communication and Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti, the source said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
Google has warned that it would exclude French media sites from its search results if France adopts a bill that will force search engines to pay for content.<\/p>\n
A letter sent by Google to several French ministerial offices this month said it “cannot accept” such a move and the company “as a consequence would be required to no longer reference French sites”.<\/p>\n
Google said a law which would require it to make payments to media sites for displaying links to their content, would “threaten (Google’s) very existence”.<\/p>\n
Leading French newspaper publishers last month called on the government to adopt a law imposing a settlement in the long-running dispute with Google, forcing it and other search engines to share some of the advertising revenue from user searches for news contained on media websites.<\/p>\n
Their demand follows the German government approving in August draft legislation that would force search engines to pay commissions to German media websites.<\/p>\n
The culture minister Filippetti told a parliamentary commission last week that she was in favour of the idea, calling it “a tool that it seems important to me to develop”.<\/p>\n
She said she was surprised by the tone of Google’s letter, telling AFP that “you don’t deal with a democratically-elected government with threats.” <\/p>\n
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