Another victory for the French press.
Facebook has reached an agreement with part of the French daily press to pay it for "neighboring rights", the American social network announced on Thursday, a few weeks after announcing similar agreements with Le Monde and Le Figaro .
"We are pleased to announce an agreement around neighboring rights with the Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale, allowing publishers and users to continue to share quality news content on Facebook," reacted Facebook.
"I am very happy to reach this agreement, which is the result of a frank and fruitful dialogue between publishers and a leading digital platform," commented Pierre Louette, President of the General Information Press Alliance and CEO of Groupe Les Echos - Le Parisien.
The terms we have reached will allow Facebook to apply the directive and French law, while generating significant funding for Alliance publishers, especially the smallest of them.
This first step in the concrete implementation of neighboring rights shows that solidarity between publishers is essential to effectively defend their interests.
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Google fined
At the end of January 2021, Google and the Alliance of the press of general information (Apig), which represents the national and regional French dailies, had announced the signing of an agreement paving the way for the remuneration of the French press by the giant du Net under this "neighboring right", a right similar to copyright.
Masi in July, Google was fined 500 million euros imposed by the French competition gendarme.
The latter had estimated that the computer giant had not negotiated "in good faith" with the press editors.
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The Competition Authority then ordered Google to "present an offer of remuneration for the current uses of their protected content" to publishers and press agencies, under penalty "of being subject to penalties of up to 900,000 euros per day. delay ".