Jesper Doub, Facebook's director for news partnerships in Europe, said in a blog post Thursday that French media groups would have to give consent for this to continue. The company later confirmed that publishers would not be compensated for the use of enriched links, depriving them of the revenue stream the EU law is meant to provide. On Thursday, French media groups announced plans to file complaints againstGoogle with the competition regulator in France -- the first country to ratify the EU rules into national law. The EU rules create so-called neighbouring rights to ensure a form of copyright protection -- and compensation -- for media firms when their content is used on websites. READ ALSO: Macron: 'No escape' for Google from French copyright law

Source: The Local October 26, 2019 07:18 UTC