"After the time for fighting, then the time for dialogue, the time for an agreement has finally come",
summarize Fabrice Fries, CEO of Agence France Presse (AFP), and Sébastien Missoffe, CEO of Google France.
The press agency and Google announce that they have reached the signing of a specific remuneration agreement for neighboring rights.
"We are pleased to unveil this five-year European agreement, which begins this week,"
explains Sébastien Missoffe.
It is not mixed with commercial services. "
If the amount of the agreement remains confidential, Fabrice Fries qualifies it as
"significant"
.
See also
Neighboring rights: Facebook signs an agreement with the news press
This European-wide agreement was designed in anticipation of the transposition in other countries of neighboring law, introduced by the European directive on copyright in March 2019. It obliges digital platforms to pay press publishers for the publication and sharing of their content.
"Our agreement with Google will then apply automatically in the
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