Meta loses court fight over compensation to Italian publishers

Foo Yun Chee

Tue, May 12, 2026 astatine 2:59 AM CDT 1 min read

By Foo Yun Chee

LUXEMBOURG, May 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms connected Tuesday mislaid its combat against an ‌Italian regulatory bid that it should compensate ‌publishers for utilizing snippets of their quality articles aft Europe's apical ​court sided with the Italian telecoms watchdog.

The lawsuit underscores the ongoing copyright conflict betwixt publishers and creators and tech companies implicit the usage of paper articles oregon ‌authors' enactment for ⁠AI grooming that person triggered litigation against companies including Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic for ⁠infringement.

"The Court finds that a close to just compensation for publishers is accordant with EU law, provided that ​that remuneration ​constitutes information for authorising ​their publications to beryllium ‌used online," said the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

The lawsuit came earlier the Court aft Meta challenged the Italian communications authorization AGCOM's powerfulness to acceptable the compensation that online platforms should wage ‌for utilizing property articles.

Meta argued ​that specified nationalist measures are ​incompatible with rights ​already granted to publishers nether EU copyright ‌legislation. An Italian tribunal subsequently ​sought guidance ​from the CJEU.

"We volition reappraisal the determination successful afloat and prosecute constructively arsenic the substance returns to ​the Italian ‌courts," said a Meta institution spokesperson.

The lawsuit is ​C-797/23 Meta Platforms Ireland (Fair compensation).

(Reporting by Foo ​Yun Chee;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)