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Even more legal trouble for X.
Nine months after taking over the company that was once known as Twitter, Elon Musk has sued and been sued a lot. Add AFP to the long list of plaintiffs. The French press agency has filed a copyright lawsuit accusing X of ignoring its obligations stemming from the national copyright law.
France requires platforms such as X to enter discussions with publishers seeking remuneration for distributing news. Google previously refused to comply but was forced to pay €500 million in 2021 by the French competition authority. Musk has called it “bizarre” to “pay *them* for traffic to their site where they make advertising revenue and we don’t”.
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