A major French news outlet is suing ElonMusk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, claiming the social platform failed to discuss compensation for sharing news there.
Agence France-Presse , a France-based newswire service, announced on Wednesday that it was suing Musk in a Paris court over copyright law. France passed a law in 2019 establishing “neighboring rights,” a principle in copyright law that compels online platforms to negotiate with news outlets for compensation.
Musk slammed AFP’s lawsuit in an X post."This is bizarre. They want us to pay *them* for traffic to their site where they make advertising revenue and we don't!?" the billionaire wrote.France's antitrust watchdog fined Google 500 million euros in 2021 for failing to negotiate compensation with local news outlets.
The suit was filed at the same time that Meta and Google were removing news links from the Canadian internet in protest of C-18, a bill that would require online platforms to provide compensation to news outlets. Meta began removing Canadian news links from the platform this week.
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