The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news service started a copyright case against Twitter, which recently changed its name to X, on Wednesday in France. This is part of a global fight to get tech companies to pay for news.
Media groups have long said that their stories and pictures add value to platforms like X, Facebook, and Google, so they should get a cut of the profits.
A 2019 European Union law called neighboring rights which lets people get paid for sharing content, helped their case. Google and Facebook finally agreed to pay some French media outlets.
But AFP has said that X, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has clearly refused to talk about neighborhood rights.
In a statement, AFP said that it had filed a lawsuit with a judge in Paris to force the platform to give it information that would help the French news agency figure out how much pay was fair.
“The Agency will continue to use the right legal tools with each relevant platform to make sure that the value made by sharing news content is shared fairly.”
When AFP tried to get in touch with the company, no one was there to talk right away.
This week, Meta stopped people in Canada from seeing posts from news organizations on Facebook and Instagram. This was because of a rule that says the content needs to be paid for.
Google was asked to do the same thing.
In Australia, Meta and Google also fought against similar plans.
The two companies control most of the advertising on the Internet, and they are accused of taking money from traditional news outlets while using their material for free.
Since X is a much smaller market, it hasn’t been looked at as closely.
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