French visual artists to receive compensation from Meta
It’s done! After years of negotiations, ADAGP and Meta announced today that they have reached an agreement on the remuneration of visual artists whose works are distributed on Facebook and Instagram.
It’s a major breakthrough for the visual arts: the Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP) and Meta have just announced the signing of a remuneration agreement. The parties do not specify, but this agreement has been made possible by the 2019 EU copyright directive. As ADAGP DG Marie-Anne Ferry Fall confided to ElectronLibre back in 2016, i.e. before the directive, « a glance at Twitter and Facebook clearly shows that there are thousands, millions to be exact, of protected works…
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