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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   
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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• how about.... how about.... (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday August 29 2016, @06:21PM

  by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday August 29 2016, @06:21PM (#394858)

  only charging when google get's it right - I'm still amazed at how bad google image search is. It seems to get the first row almost right, and then pages of ads/rubbish/wrong.....

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• Re:how about.... Re:how about.... (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 29 2016, @06:43PM

  by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday August 29 2016, @06:43PM (#394868)

  Google's reverse image search seems to work pretty well.

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  • Re:how about.... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @06:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @06:52PM (#394873)

    Always have trouble using google for that. I prefer TinEye Reverse Image Search [tineye.com].

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