In Europe, the struggle for the enforcement of neighboring rights continues. After the agreement signed between Google and French publishers, a new confrontation begins, this time between Belgian media and Facebook.
Neighboring law is a directive adopted by the European Union in March 2019. It forces Internet giants to negotiate with online press publishers to pay them a fee for using excerpts from articles or photos on their services. This text is specifically aimed at Google and Facebook.
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Each country transposes the European directive into its national legislation at its own pace. France was one of the pioneers to integrate the text in September 2019. Apart from Quiévrain, the law was only passed on June 19 this year, to take effect on August 1. In the last week, Facebook had to pay the media for the use of their content. Instead of payment, the social network made…
Source: Le Figaro
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