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
(Score: 4, Funny) by DutchUncle on Monday August 29 2016, @08:36PM
"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
Damn You Auto-correct!!!
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.