Confidential amounts
Over the years, and with difficulty, framework agreements have been concluded for the payment of related rights to several media, as well as individual agreements, notably with The World or Le Figaro.
The confidential amounts received by the latter are those “negotiated by Apig”, the Alliance for the general information press, which brings together nearly 300 titles, the general director of the Figaro group told AFP, Marc Feuillée.
The internal agreement announced Thursday, the result of discussions launched according to him in 2021, concerns the sharing of sums linked to contracts concluded with Meta (Facebook) and Google. It “will be reinforced by possible” future agreements “with other market players,” underlines a press release, shared on X by the group.
2900 euros per journalist retroactively
For now, every journalist in the Figaro will receive, retroactively, 2,900 euros for the period from October 2019 to December 2023, according to the press release. A payment “of around 800 euros per journalist should” be added for 2024 “and subsequent years,” it is added.
“We signed until the end of 2025” to give ourselves “visibility” and allow us to “re-discuss” the agreement if necessary, indicated Marc Feuillée. If he “rejoices” at “fair and logical remuneration” for the 550 press cards of the Figarothe leader also says he is “concerned about the future”.
The X platform slips through the mesh
“The Google agreements are currently being renegotiated with Apig and the Facebook agreements will be renegotiable in 2025,” he recalls.
In addition, a “certain number of American platforms”, including X, “do not comply with neighboring rights”, five years after the promulgation of the dedicated law, argues Marc Feuillée, calling for the establishment of a “arbitration mechanism”.
In June, a similar agreement was reached daily The Worldensuring journalists a 25% payment of related rights collected for the use of their content by the platforms and the American artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI.