Code payment impact on journalist roles uncertain says media
January 25, 2021 10:47
Australian media organisations AAP, News Corp, Nine, SBS, ABC and Guardian Australia have put forward respective cases for the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code to the economic legislative senate committee.
When asked how many additional journalists the code would assist in employing across the media outlets, the response was uncertain from all.
Pressed for further details by the committee, Nine said that it would be used to sustain its journalistic business, rather than go to shareholder dividends or operational overheads.
The ABC said additional revenue accrued under the code would be used to provide additional resources to regional journalism. The ABC has 48 regional outlets across the country.
Tech platforms such as Google and Facebook are fighting a proposed Australian law that will force them to remunerate Australian news media companies. The Australian government introduced the News Medi.
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The company said its primary concern is that the law would require payments simply for links and snippets just to news results in Search, said Google Australia and New Zealand VP Mel Silva. The free service we offer Australian users, and our business model, has been built on the ability to link freely between websites, Silva told Australia’s Senate Economics Legislation Committee on Friday.
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The full text of his submission is below:
Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2020 Submission 46
18 January, 2021
Parliament House
To the Senate Standing Committee on Economics,
I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief submission for the Committee’s consideration, as it conducts its inquiry into the proposed News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. I write in my capacity as the inventor of the World Wide Web, which I invented in 1989, first developing an information management system and then implementing the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and server via the internet. The World Wide Web is now accessed by more than half the world’s population, including an estimated 21 million Australians.