The patience of newspaper editors is reaching its limit. The Figaro, The Parisian, The Echoes, The new objects, the world as well as other titles from the Le Monde Group, Télérama, International Mail, The Huffington Post, and Malesherbes Publications announced on Tuesday, November 12 that they would sue the social network
This action, carried out jointly with Agence France-Presse (AFP), arises directly from a summary judgment presented in the spring before the Paris judicial court. In fact, on May 24, the judge in summary proceedings ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and ordered the social network owned by billionaire Trumpist Elon Musk to provide them with data that would allow them to evaluate the income obtained from the exploitation of the articles. . and the information they publish.
The two months that Network “This is the reason why we are activating the payment of the fine.explains Marc Feuillée, general director of the Le Figaro group. This means 1,000 euros per day and per title, which is not at all dissuasive for a platform of this size. In parallel, we assign X to the fund. »
A “vital question”
This action against X follows the one launched on Friday, November 8 against Microsoft by around fifty members of the General Information Press Alliance (APIG). For the same evils, the same remedies. “These measures aim to ensure that a major digital player, which has been using millions of press content without authorization for almost five years, finally complies with articles L. 218-1 et seq. of the intellectual property code.”explains APIG in a press release. For its part, The Figaro it alone gives up the professional social network LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft.
What is at stake economically is not small, APIG emphasizes: “In a context where press income continues to erode (…), Respect for related rights represents a vital issue for the survival and independence of the media. (…) in a context of massive dissemination of disinformation”, she writes. “We ask for a change in the law, says its general director, Pierre Petillaultto create an arbitration mechanism, but also to realign the definition of related rights with the joint commission. » This second point aims to reserve related rights to news newspapers, excluding entertainment sites (Allociné, Marmiton, etc.).
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