The French news agency AFP, one of the largest in the world, announced Wednesday that it is suing Twitter to enforce the payment of related rights by agencies and press publishers.
AFP “regrets the manifest refusal of Twitter, recently renamed ‘X’, to start discussions to apply related rights in the press,” the agency said in a statement.
For this reason, he filed a lawsuit today in the Paris Judicial Court to order Twitter as a precautionary measure to communicate the elements that he is going to use for “the evaluation of the remuneration that corresponds to him by virtue of related rights.”
The French company recalls that this right was legally established in France in 2019 “to allow press agencies and publishers to receive remuneration for the platforms that disseminate their content and take the economic value linked to the information.” For this reason, AFP insists that it will continue to use the necessary legal means to achieve a fair balance in the distribution of the value of information.”
France’s related rights law was initially ignored by the big platforms, but a €500 million fine convinced Google to reach various deals with the country’s media in 2022, something Facebook also did in late 2021.
France was the first in the EU to incorporate into its internal legal system the community directive to ensure the payment of related rights to the media.
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