Under the statement with Google, AFP volition besides connection fact-checking grooming connected respective continents.
Google and Agence France-Presse connected Wednesday said they had signed a "pioneering" five-year woody nether which the world's biggest net hunt institution volition wage an undisclosed sum for contented successful Europe.
The agreement, pursuing 18 months of negotiations, is the archetypal by a news agency nether the 2019 European directive connected alleged neighbouring rights, astatine the bosom of aggregate disputes betwixt web giants and the media implicit outgo for usage of online news and different content.
"This is an statement that covers the full of the EU, successful each of AFP's languages, including successful countries that person not enacted the directive," said AFP CEO Fabrice Fries, describing the woody arsenic "pioneering" and the "culmination of a agelong struggle".
AFP produces and distributes multimedia contented to its clients successful six languages astir the world.
After initially being reluctant to wage French newspapers for the usage of their content, Google yet signed a three-year model statement with immoderate of the nation's property successful aboriginal 2021, but was fined 500 cardinal euros ($566 million) by the contention authorization successful mid-July for having failed to negociate "in good faith".
Google has appealed, and is continuing talks to scope a caller agreement.
'Common ground'
Google's Sebastien Missoffe (left) and Fabrice Fries scope what the AFP CEO described arsenic a 'pioneering' statement for the hunt elephantine to wage for the quality agency's content.
AFP has fought for quality agencies to beryllium afloat eligible to payment from neighbouring rights agreements, Fries said. Wednesday's woody "will lend to the accumulation of prime accusation and the improvement of innovation wrong the agency", helium added.
"This statement with Agence France-Presse demonstrates our willingness to find communal crushed with publishers and property agencies successful France connected the taxable of neighbouring rights," said Sebastien Missoffe, Google's wide manager successful France. The pact "paves the mode for adjacent person collaboration", helium added.
Under the agreement AFP volition besides connection fact-checking grooming connected respective continents, details of which volition beryllium announced soon, the companies said successful a statement.
Global tech giants—mostly American—have tally into a wide scope of disputes with Brussels and EU subordinate states, implicit taxation, maltreatment of their ascendant marketplace power, privacy issues and of making wealth from journalistic contented without sharing the revenue.
To tackle this the EU directive created the signifier of copyright called neighbouring rights that would let outlets to request compensation for usage of their content.
Facebook announced respective agreements successful October, including 1 that provides for 2 years' remuneration to French quality media for the usage of their content, arsenic good arsenic for their information successful Facebook News, which Facebook volition deploy successful France successful January 2022.
In France and Denmark, media groups joined forces to negociate with tech giants, portion successful Spain Google announced connected November 3 that it would reopen its Google News work successful aboriginal 2022.
In Australia, a instrumentality has been passed to oblige tech giants to wage the media for utilizing their content.
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