Elon Musk’s X is being sued again. This time it’s not about unpaid bills or missing bonuses, but rather about X’s refusal to pay Agence France-Presse for carrying fragments of AFP articles on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Why does AFP get to claim licensing fees for this? Because of an increasingly popular concept known as neighboring rights or ancillary copyright, and if that sounds dull and obscure, it kind of is. But it’s also…well, here’s Musk’s take: “This is bizarre. They want us to pay *them* for traffic to their site where they make advertising revenue and we don’t!?”
