Google pays sites for the news it shares: what happens to sites in Turkey?

US-based tech giant googlewas at the center of a prominent debate several years ago. Some institutions that broadcast news on the Internet had complained to the European Union about Google. The reason for this complaint is that Google displays key information about news on its search results page, It does not point to sites.† According to the laws of the European Union, this situation is copyright infringement meant.

Now there is a new development on this topic. According to a report in Reuters, Google With over 300 news organizations had a special agreement. Under this agreement, copyright payments will be made to the relevant websites. Reuters, Google’s official statement on the subject can during the day there stands that.

News sources get a tool to make things easier

Reuters, Director of News and Publishing Partnerships at Google Sulina Connal He says he reached a blog post by. This release states that an agreement has been reached with some news sources in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Ireland, but that the agreements will not be limited to these. According to the information obtained, Google created a new tool and news sources will register for copyright using this tool.

What will news sources in Turkey do?

In the blog post, which has not yet been officially published, “other countries of the European Union” is also included. This sentence leads us to think that both the agreements and the copyright tool that will be made available will be specific to EU countries. In other words, news organizations in Turkey are adhering, at least for now, to Google’s agreement. they will not be included† Whether this situation will change in the future is unknown at this time.