An agreement has been found between Google and the French press editors.
Cartoonist Xavier Gorce slammed the door of the newspaper "Le Monde".
Faced with the call for tenders from the Professional Football League, Canal + strikes back.
Mediapro boss Jaume Roures broke his silence a month after the withdrawal agreement with the LFP.
The situation remains blocked at L'Equipe, which is now entering its 14th day of strike action.
“Special Envoy” is dedicating a documentary this evening to the difficulties of students during the Covid period.
An agreement has been reached between Google and the French press editors
It is an agreement which sets the framework for the negotiations that the American giant will have to start with each French press title whose contents it wishes to use.
Press titles that he will have to pay.
This agreement, the details of which are not yet known, is the result of long discussions which began last year.
A 2019 European directive indeed forces Google to pay the media whose content it uses on its search engine.
This is called neighboring rights.
Google had first tried to circumvent this obligation, but the French justice forced it to negotiate.
Opposite, the press has joined forces to set the criteria that will determine the amount of this remuneration.
These criteria include, for example, the daily volume of publications or the internet media audience.
Cartoonist Xavier Gorce slammed the door of the newspaper “Le Monde”
He said yesterday that he was stopping his collaboration with the daily.
He regrets that “Le Monde” has so quickly apologized for one of his drawings, evoking incest.
An apology that came after criticism on social networks.
The designer has received the support of anonymous people and personalities, from Nicolas Bedos to Raphaël Enthoven, including Caroline Fourest.
Support he appreciated.
For its part, “Le Monde” regretted the decision of the designer.
In a forum, the director of the daily, Jérôme Fenoglio, defends a “complete” freedom of expression, for the cartoonists but also for the press titles.
They should be free to choose what they post.
In this case, “Le Monde” maintains that it should not have published the offending cartoon, which it considers “contrary to its editorial commitments”.
Faced with the call for tenders from the Professional Football League, Canal + strikes back
The group will challenge the validity of the market consultation launched Tuesday evening by the Professional Football League.
This is what “Le Figaro” announced yesterday.
Canal + believes that the League cannot organize a new partial call for tenders.
The League has put back the TV rights for 80% of its matches.
Since the start of the school year, Canal + has been broadcasting the other 20 percent of the championship, for which it has bought the rights from beIN Sports.
But following Mediapro's default in payment, the group believes that this lot has been overvalued and has been asking for ten days that the rights to the entire championship be put back on sale.
Mediapro boss Jaume Roures broke his silence a month after the withdrawal agreement with the LFP.
And he offers a pretty amazing rewrite of events.
Mediapro never intended to stop paying for matches broadcast on its Telefoot channel.
That's what he said to a Spanish radio station.
The group simply wanted to renegotiate the price of the rights it had acquired.
He felt that the health situation had depreciated them.
And the boss has this sentence: “Instead of sitting down to negotiate, things went wrong”.
But this rewrite doesn't quite match the facts.
Mediapro has indeed refused to honor its October and December deadlines.
Around 330 million euros.
And it is always Mediapro which placed itself under the protection of the Commercial Court of Nanterre, in November.
These steps did not prevent him, earlier this week, from proposing to the League to continue to broadcast the matches beyond January 31.
A backup solution, if the call for tenders launched by the League did not succeed on time.
The situation remains blocked at L'Equipe
The daily begins today its 14th day of strike.
Management and unions seem to be sticking to their positions.
The CSE, the company's social and economic committee, will meet again today to discuss one of the two options proposed by management: the social plan.
At the same time, daily support is on the increase.
More than 500 personalities from the world of sports and culture have co-signed an open letter
The report of "Special Envoy" devoted this evening to the difficulties of students in period of Covid
A particularly topical report.
Yesterday, several student demonstrations were organized in France, and Emmanuel Macron will go to the University of Paris Saclay today, to meet demoralized students.
Students confronted with an unprecedented situation.
The financial difficulties faced by some of them are coupled with a health crisis that seems endless.
This crisis increases their loneliness, but also their anxiety about the future, as explained to Louise Bernard the director of the report, Elvire Berahya-Lazarus.
The report followed several of them - in food bank queues, struggling with online education, or unable to find odd jobs.
“My student life”, report by “Special Envoy”, it's tonight on France 2 from 9pm.
And Eva Roque will tell you more about it in her “Zapping the next day”, later at 10:06 am.
The rant of the stars of British music
Ed Sheeran, Elton John or even Sting.
They are among the hundred artists who have co-signed an open letter denouncing what they call a “shameful failure” of the British government.
In their sights: the agreement to leave the European Union, which will considerably complicate the organization of tours.
For example, musicians will have to obtain a different visa for each of the 27 countries of the European Union.
Paperwork but also additional costs that weaken an industry already on its knees because of COVID.
The artists are calling on Boris Johnson to put in place a specific agreement that would abolish these restrictions.