Sue X in France for using unpaid content – ​​Diario La Página –

Some of France’s main news publications announced on Tuesday that they are going to sue social network X (formerly Twitter) for using their content without remuneration, in violation of so-called related rights.

Related rights, established in 2019 by a European Union directive, allow media outlets to be remunerated when their content is reused by large digital platforms. France was the country that first began its application at the national level.

Previously, an emergency procedure
The accusation against the social network was advanced in a joint press release and will be presented by the publishing companies of the newspapers Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and Le Monde, as well as the magazines Télérama, Courrier International, Le Huffington Post and Le Nouvel Obs, among others, before the Judicial Court of Paris.

Some time ago, these publications and the French agency AFP initiated emergency proceedings against X and its French subsidiary, arguing that the platform has refused to negotiate compensation for the use of their content.

On May 24, a judge at the Paris Judicial Court agreed with them and ordered the social network, within a period of two months, to provide a series of commercial data that would allow the income obtained from its content to be evaluated.

«Numerous attempts at dialogue»
However, to date, .

“Unlike Google and Meta, X/Twitter has never agreed to open negotiations with French press publishers to comply with the legal framework on copyright and related rights, despite numerous attempts at dialogue,” the newspapers explain in their release.