Google Signs France Artists Deal After Copyright, Map Battles
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Google Inc.’s YouTube unit will pay three French artistic collection agencies for the use of their members’ works, continuing an effort to cool tensions with creative groups and regulators in France.
YouTube will compensate screenwriters, directors, playwrights, and other artists represented by the SACD, SCAM, and ADAGP agencies, the groups said in Paris today. The revenue- sharing model for the deal, which will cover works viewed in France and be retroactive to YouTube’s 2007 entry into the French market, hasn’t yet been fully determined, they said.