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French news titles sue X over allegedly running their content without payment
Social media site accused of violating law that requires platforms to pay media when republishing articles
They accuse the site, formerly known as Twitter, of violating “ neighbouring rights ”, which, under a European directive adopted into French law, are due when social media platforms republish news content. On 24 May, a Paris tribunal agreed with the media companies, and gave X two months to provide commercial data that would allow the outlets to assess the income the platform earns from their content. In March, a French lawyer for X said the social network was not subject to the neighbouring rights directive because, unlike Google or Facebook, X rests on “what users post” and not on what it publishes itself, the public broadcaster France TV reported.
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