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by lokedhs 1974 days ago
In France's case, they did agree on that: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/google-inks-agreement-in-f...

So it's clearly not a matter of principle for them. As far as I understand, Google sending traffic to the news organisations will count as payment, which is probably why it's acceptable. If they don't want to pay any money for the text they copy from the articles, they can just increase the number of links to that organisation to compensate so they don't have to pay.