L'Alliance de la presse d'information generale (APIG), the lobby group that signed the deal with Google, was not immediately available for comment. "Google took advantage of our divisions to advance its interests," it said. It said it regretted that the profession had not offered a united front in the talks with Google. "These opaque agreements don't ensure the fair treatment of all news publishers, since the calculation formula isn't made public," the union for independent online news publishers Spiil said earlier this week. The tech firm and the publishers announced that they had reached an agreement last month, but financial terms were not disclosed. The second document is a settlement agreement under which Google agrees to pay $10 million to the same group of publishers in exchange for their commitment to end all present and future potential litigation tied to copyright claims over the duration of the three-year agreement. The two documents, seen by Reuters and disclosed publicly for the first time, include a framework agreement which stipulates Google is ready to pay $22 million annually in total to a group of 121 national and local French news publications after signing individual licensing agreements with each of them. PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show, a deal one news publishers' lobby deemed unfair.
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