This is part of a joint effort by global publishers and news agencies to require technology corporations to pay royalties for news content shared on network platforms.
AFP said, the company has filed a lawsuit in a court in Paris to ask social network X to provide data on the amount of information shared on this network platform, through which AFP can estimate the amount of compensation. reasonable.
The European Union in 2019 passed the Copyright Law, according to which technology companies need to pay a fee when sharing on their platforms the content of news agencies. Google and Facebook then agreed to pay royalties to a number of French news agencies.
Canada also recently passed a new law, requiring technology corporations to pay news agencies to publish news content on their platforms.