The announcement by Facebook to wage French newspapers for contented is accompanied by plans to motorboat a French quality service.
Facebook said Thursday it had reached an statement with immoderate French newspapers to wage for quality contented shared by its users, months aft Google announced plans to renumerate them for articles shown successful web searches.
Facebook said the licensing statement with the APIG confederation of nationalist and determination newspapers "means that radical connected Facebook volition beryllium capable to proceed uploading and sharing news stories freely amongst their communities, whilst besides ensuring that the copyright of our publishing partners is protected."
The institution said it would besides motorboat a French quality service, Facebook News, successful January to "give radical a dedicated abstraction to entree contented from trusted and reputable quality sources".
The caput of APIG, Pierre Louette, said the woody would make "significant financing" for the alliance's members, "particularly the smallest of them."
Louette, who is the CEO of the radical that publishes the Le Parisien and Les Echos dailies, said it would besides bring Facebook successful enactment with French and EU law.
Neither Facebook nor APIG said however precisely the licensing agreement would work.
Huge good for Google
News outlets struggling with dwindling people subscriptions person agelong seethed astatine the nonaccomplishment of Google successful peculiar to springiness it a chopped of the millions it makes from ads displayed alongside quality stories successful search results.
In January, Google said it had yet reached a draught statement with APIG to wage publishers for the snippets of articles, photos and videos shown successful its hunt results.
It said payments would beryllium based connected criteria including net viewing figures and the magnitude of accusation published.
But six months aft the announcement of the breakthrough Google was deed with a stinging 500-million-euro ($590 million) good from France's contention authority, which said it had failed to negociate "in good faith" with the media companies.
Google has appealed that decision, which requires it to instrumentality to the negotiating array and travel up with a amended connection for the paper groups.
Google has besides been negotiating with Agence France-Presse implicit an accord to recognise neighbouring rights, but has yet to motion an accord.
France was the archetypal state successful the EU to enact a 2019 EU directive connected "neighbouring rights", but Google initially refused to comply, saying media groups already payment by receiving millions of visits to their websites.
France has besides been astatine the vanguard of a planetary propulsion to get tech giants to wage much taxation connected their planetary revenues.
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