The CJEU Clarifies the Terms of Remuneration Owed to Newspaper Publishers Under Related Rights
In a highly anticipated ruling in the case pitting Meta against the Italian regulator AGCOM, the CJEU clarifies the extent to which Member States may require platforms to pay remuneration to newspaper publishers. This interpretation reinforces the French framework. The Court of Justice of the European Union clarified on May 12 the conditions under which a Member State may establish a remuneration mechanism for news publishers under the neighboring right introduced by Article 15 of the 2019 Copyright Directive. It is now up to the Italian court to verify whether the national system—which operates on the basis of an interplay between the… law and decisions by the Italian Communications Authority—actually complies with the criteria established by the Court. Meta v AGCOM In response to a request for a preliminary ruling…