Facebook says it will pay French publishers for links to news content
Facebook said
Thursday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for
links to their news stories that are shared by people on the social network.
The company says it inked the licensing agreement with the
Alliance de la Presse d'Information Generale, which represents 300 French
publishers, to improve the quality of online information for Internet users and
publishers on Facebook.
The financial terms weren't disclosed.
Facebook also
said it would launch in January a French version of its Facebook News product,
where the group's publishers could allow their stories to appear.
The licensing deal is the result of a wider push by authorities in
Europe and elsewhere to force Facebook and other social media companies to
compensate publishers for content.
Governments have been responding to news outlets' complaints that
internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising
linked to their reports without sharing revenue.
France was the first of the European Union's 27 nations to adopt
the bloc's 2019 copyright directive, which outlines a way for publishers and
news companies to strike licensing deals with online platforms.
Google signed a similar framework deal with the alliance this
year, but talks over licensing payments bogged down, leading French regulators
to slap Google with a hefty fine for not negotiating in good faith with publishers.
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