Published on
08/07/2026 - 17:48 GMT+2
France’s competition authority has ordered Meta to resume talks with French press groups over copyright payments, saying the company’s approach "caused serious and immediate harm to the press sector" and weakened protections for news content.
The order follows complaints from two organisations representing French news publishers that Meta failed to reach new agreements with: Société des Droits Voisins de la Presse (DVP), which manages rights on behalf of publishers and news agencies, and l’Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale (APIG), an industry group representing around 300 publications.
Their complaints centre on neighbouring rights or related rights, a form of copyright-related protection that gives press publishers and news agencies the right to seek payment when online platforms reuse or display parts of their content.
