Agence France-Presse (AFP) stated on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in Paris towards Elon Musk’s X social media platform, previously referred to as Twitter, accusing it of failing to debate potential cost for the distribution of the information company’s content material.
France in 2019 enacted a copyright rule dubbed “neighbouring rights” that compels giant on-line platforms to open talks with publishers looking for remuneration for information.
For all latest news, follow The My News’s Google News channel. “Agence France-Presse has expressed its issues over the clear refusal from Twitter (just lately rebranded as ‘X’) to enter into discussions relating to the implementation of neighbouring rights for the press,” the information company stated in a press release.
Musk criticised AFP’s transfer in an X social media publish.
“That is weird. They need us to pay *them* for visitors to their web site the place they make promoting income and we do not!?” he stated.
X didn’t reply to a request for remark.
In 2021, France’s antitrust watchdog fined Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google 500 million euros for failing to adjust to orders on conduct talks with the nation’s information publishers.
Since then, Google has dedicated to resolving the dispute and has introduced offers with AFP and several other different main French information organisations. Meta Platforms’ (META.O) Fb too has signed agreements with some French publishers.
