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NIEUWS 22-11-2024

Positive interim ruling: Meta must pay visual crea

On 20 November, the Amsterdam District Court issued an interim judgment in the case between Pictoright and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Pictoright started this case because it believes visual creators should receive remuneration for the use of their work on Meta’s platforms. As a platform,...

NIEUWS 29-10-2024

Good News Copyright Contracts Act

Some time ago, Pictoright expressed its disappointment with the proposal for the ‘Strengthening of Copyright Contracts Act’. For visual creators, this proposal would only minimally strengthen their legal position vis-à-vis users of images, and many of the recommendations of the Federatie Beeldrechten were dropped by the legislator. But after...

NIEUWS 28-10-2024

Update Lawsuit Meta

Pictoright has asked the court to give a ruling in the case against Meta. This was done after the judges had given the parties two weeks during the hearing to try to work together on a solution. Unfortunately, during talks over the past few weeks, Pictoright has not received sufficient...

NIEUWS 02-10-2024

Lawsuit Meta

On 19 September, the trial against Meta finally took place. In an unusually full courtroom, three judges spent no less than 3.5 hours considering our claims. The court seemed critical towards Meta and indicated that at least one of our claims was likely to be awarded. That could be...

NIEUWS 04-6-2024

Meta’s “opt-out”: invullen of niet?

Following a mailing from Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram), we are getting a lot of questions from affiliates. Meta has announced that it has changed its terms of use so that Meta can now use all uploads and private data of its users to train its...

NIEUWS 30-5-2024

AI OPT OUT NOW

De Federatie Beeldrechten presents: Opt Out Now! A new initiative that puts control of one’s copyrighted work back in the hands of the author. Artificial intelligence (AI) can only exist thanks to the billions of existing artworks that are scraped from the internet. These works are used to feed...

NIEUWS 20-3-2024

Australia implements Resale Rights

As of 31 March 2024, Dutch authors can benefit from the resale right in Australia! This means that when any of their works are resold in Australia, they will be entitled to a share of the proceeds. This will be possible thanks to new legislation in Australia that allows...

NIEUWS 15-3-2024

Collective Opt-Out Pictoright affiliates

Pictoright uses the option of making a rights reservation within the purposes of Article 15o Copyright Act and Article 4 DSM Directive. Pictoright believes that prior permission is required for text and data mining or any other use of works from Pictoright’s repertoire by entities developing artificial intelligence tools...

NIEUWS 08-12-2023

Pictoright summons Meta

Dutch copyright association Pictoright has summoned Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, for copyright infringement. The company is not fulfilling its legal obligations to visual creators represented by Pictoright. Pictoright believes Meta should pay a fair fee for the use of images on their social media platforms....

NIEUWS 05-10-2023

Statement submitting AI generated works

For some time Pictoright has been concerned with the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially where the risks of training generative AI on works of our affiliates are concerned. There are also more and more authors who are starting to work with generative AI. This means that we also occasionally...