Google to pay over 300 EU news outlets to publish content

Publishers in Ireland, Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, and the Netherlands have signed up to an agreement with the search engine

The European Copyright Directive allows publishers to ask for payment whenever online platforms use their content. 

Google has reached agreements with over 300 European Union-based news publications in order to publish their stories on the search engine.

Publishers in Ireland, along with others in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, and the Netherlands, have signed up to the agreement with the search engine, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday. The post did not reveal how much Google would pay for the deals.