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French Law Requires Search Engines to Pay Royalties to Index Images

posted by janrinok on Monday August 29 2016, @04:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the whose-images? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The Disruptive Competition Project(DisCo) has discovered a provision in a French law which requires search engines to pay royalties for the images they index. Although the Freedom of Creation Act was passed in late June, this particular provision in the law hasn't received much attention until now.

Under the provisions of the law, whenever a visual work is published online, the reproduction rights are automatically transferred to a collection agency authorized by the French government. Search engines must get a license from the collection agency in order to index the work and will pay a royalty in return. It will then be up to the collection agency to distribute the royalties to the creator of the work.

Source: http://techraptor.net/content/french-law-requires-search-engines-pay

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Nerdfest on Monday August 29 2016, @04:33PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday August 29 2016, @04:33PM (#394795)

    I'm still somewhat of the opinion that France still misses the Germans and created a sort of cargo cult. The level of bureaucracy occurs because they think if they have lots of rules, they'll become as efficient as the Germans.

    Just a theory.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Monday August 29 2016, @06:04PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday August 29 2016, @06:04PM (#394855) Journal

    The law seems specific enough to require payments to the French government, but strangely vague when it comes to dismemberment of funds to the artist. So theft by government seems the motive here.

    The Germans took the art, by the train-car load. The French just take the money.

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by DutchUncle on Monday August 29 2016, @08:36PM

      by DutchUncle (5370) on Monday August 29 2016, @08:36PM (#394921)

      "dismemberment of funds"? Are you suggesting that it might cost an arm and a leg?

      • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:55AM

        by frojack (1554) on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:55AM (#395033) Journal

        Damn You Auto-correct!!!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @09:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @09:06PM (#394931)

      > The Germans took the art
      Exactly like Napoleon, and the revolutionaries before him and basically everybody else, from ancient times up to clay tablets in Iraq and Saddam's gold plated guns (yes, those guns are art, maybe bad art... I'd rate them a bit better than anything Warhol's...)