Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Canada proposes bill to force platforms like Google, Facebook to pay for news

The “Online News Act”, will require digital platforms that have a bargaining imbalance, measured by metrics like a firm’s global revenue, with news businesses to make fair deals, that would then be assessed by a regulator. If such deals do not meet a set of criteria detailed in the act, the platforms would have to go through mandatory bargaining and final offer arbitration processes overseen by the Canadian telecommunications regulator.

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