Google will pay AFP for five years for the online use of its content

It is "the culmination of a long fight" as well as a desire to "turn the page": after 18 months of difficult negotiations on the application of "neighboring rights", Google and Agence France- Presse (AFP) have reached an agreement to remunerate for five years the content of the international press agency presented by the American giant. This is the first partnership entered into by a press agency under neighboring rights to copyright, a European directive that France was the first to transpose into national law in 2019. The amount of the agreement, lump sum, was not disclosed. "It's an agreement that covers the whole of the EU, in all of AFP's languages, including in countries that have not transposed the directive," said AFP CEO Fabrice Fries. who described this agreement as "pioneering".

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