Why Google's Deal to Fund French Publishers Won't Come Stateside

Google's deal to pay about $81 million to help France's print publishers adapt to the digital world may stave off a proposed copyright law that would force the search engine to pay news outlets for snippets of their articles. But don't expect a similar deal in the United States.

Analysts told TheWrap that while the agreement, which Google chairman Eric Schmidt called "historic," will appease French politicians, it's too late for U.S. publishers to push for a similar arrangement. "This was an issue [U.S. publishers] should have brought up a long time back," Sameet Sinha, an analyst at B. Riley, told TheWrap. "I think Europe tends to be more eager to protect print publishers. I doubt the government will go after them on this complaint."