Agence France-Presse is seeking royalty-like payments over the use of news media on X/Twitter, but first it wants the courts to compel the social media giant to turn over its data.
a lawsuit against X, the company formerly known as Twitter, on August 2, citing Europe’s “neighboring rights” legislation.
“This move is aimed at compelling Twitter, in accordance with the law, to provide all the necessary elements required for assessing the remuneration owed to AFP under the neighbouring rights legislation.”in 2019 to include news organizations and the works they publish. By law, social media organizations operating in the E.U. can’t legally reproduce news content without an agreement with the original publisher.
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