The news agency announced the legal action in a statement. It said it is seeking payment under European Union intellectual property rules that cover “neighboring rights,” which allow news outlets and publishers to seek payment from digital platforms for the sharing of their work.
Much as I enjoy seeing bad things happen to Elon Musk, I don’t think this will have good future results if AFP wins. What will it say for Lemmy itself when we quote articles and don’t pay for them?
Well, it does see value of revenue generated by sharing. Lemmy is not for profit and has no advertising.
Much as the (legal) world wasn’t ready for “socal media” (which in this context actually means “web content aggregators”), the law in turn will not be ready for anything federated. They’ll try to apply the same “social media” rules to services that are decentralized, and those rules won’t really fit, and we’ll go through all this rigamarole again… in like 10 years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PARIS (AP) — France’s international news agency, Agence France-Presse, says it is pursuing a copyright case against X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in an effort to secure potential payment for its news content.
The news agency said it applied Wednesday to a Paris court to compel Elon Musk’s rebranded company to provide data it says is needed “for assessing the remuneration owed to AFP.”
“As a leading advocate for the adoption of neighboring rights for the press, AFP remains unwavering in its commitment to the cause,” the news agency said.
AFP said it “will continue to employ the appropriate legal means with each relevant platform to ensure the fair distribution of the value generated by the sharing of news content.”
News companies pushed for the EU copyright reform amid worries that quality journalism is declining as ad revenue gets siphoned off by the digital giants.
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