Additional interim ruling in case Pictoright-Meta
Additional interim ruling in case Pictoright-Meta: court continues on track and appoints experts to assess Meta’s method of valuation
On the 16th of April 2025, the Amsterdam District Court issued an additional interim judgment in the case between Pictoright and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. In this case, the court previously ruled that Meta will have to pay appropriate remuneration to the visual creators represented by Pictoright as of June 2021.
In the new interim judgment, the court confirms the main premise of the previous judgment: Meta has a continuous obligation to make best efforts to obtain a licence from Pictoright. According to the court, the way in which the remuneration linked to this licence should be determined must be reliable and sufficiently verifiable. Whether the “data discovery” proposed by Meta meets those requirements will now have to be assessed by a team of experts in the field of valuation of intellectual property rights. In the new interim ruling, this team has now been definitively appointed. They have eight months to deliver a final report, on the basis of which Meta and Pictoright are expected to be able to resume their negotiations.
Pictoright is satisfied with the interim judgment and hopes that with the help of the experts a next step can be taken in this case. Pictoright looks forward to building on the expert report, and together with Meta come to a mutually satisfactory licence agreement.
The full ruling can be found here: https://deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2025:2401
Download the press release here: PERSBERICHT-PRESS RELEASE PICTORIGHT-META 24042025