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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:47PM (#394844)

    Indeed. It won't be worth it to search co's to pay royalties on many millions of cached images such that they'll make image search text-only, an oxymoron.

    At least allow thumbnails below a certain resolution. That's a reasonable compromise.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:43AM (#395178)

    At least allow thumbnails below a certain resolution. That's a reasonable compromise.

    Not when the rationale is "we want Google to pay us, because our business model is not working in the digital world".

    Just like several European countries have laws that forbid Google News from indexing local news (without paying), with the result that Google doesn't send any potential customers their way.