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: 2) by frojack on Tuesday August 30 2016, @01:01AM
Why on earth would you post something to Facebook if you didn't expect it to somehow eventually end up being made public?
Your wishes don't appear to enter into it.
French law says the upload becomes the the property of the French government.
the reproduction rights are automatically transferred to a collection agency authorized by the French government.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.