European Commission Decision 2020/5/EU

Basis of the Case
Decision 2020/5/EU required Google to cease its practice of providing snippets of articles when a search result is returned due to infringing on copyright of the journalists whilst denying them revenue from advertising by reducing the number of people who read the article itself.

Commissioner Vestager in her ruling decided that instead of fining the business directly Google must instead pay €10mn to charities supporting independent journalists. They have also been made liable to pay any companies for revenue lost as a result of the snippet system in the past.