The remedies proposed by the Department of Justice in its antitrust lawsuit against Google have drawn measured praise from the News/Media Alliance (N/MA).
The remedies framework was submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. (See separate story).
“These remedies will go a long way towards addressing the broken marketplace created by Google’s monopoly practice of leveraging existing market power in search to extract unfair terms from content creators throughout its walled garden,” says Danielle Coffey, president & CEO of the N/MA. “Its anticompetitive behavior is unacceptable and unlawful, and Google must be held accountable.”
Coffey adds: “The news media industry has been harmed by this persistent marketplace imbalance and Google’s outsized search dominance coupled with A.I.-powered search that acquires and repurposes news media content without compensation.”
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But Coffey continues: “Although we had hoped DOJ would have gone farther to mandate competitive rates for traditional search, the remedies proposed are forward-leaning and could potentially prevent future exclusionary behavior.”