Google × Droits Voisins de la Presse (DVP)
Google signed a licensing agreement with DVP, a French collective management organization for press publishers' neighboring rights. [18] The deal provides for an annual license fee of at least €3.2 million until 2026, plus a one-time retroactive payment of €8.2 million for the period between the law's enactment (2021) and the negotiation (2023). [10] This agreement is part of Google's broader effort to comply with the EU Copyright Directive, which requires digital platforms to pay publishers for the use of their content. [10, 18]
The asset
A licensing agreement for the remuneration of neighboring rights for the use of content from DVP's member publications across Google Search, Google Discover, and Google News. [10, 18]
- 223 publications
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- news publishing
- Modalities
- text
- Jurisdiction
- FR
What it means if you hold data
This transaction is a significant example of a large tech platform compensating a broad group of publishers under a collective legal framework (neighboring rights), rather than for AI training specifically. It establishes a scalable model for remuneration via a collective body, similar to how music rights are managed, and could influence how other platforms and jurisdictions handle publisher compensation. [10]