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Sydney, Australia, Jan 20 (efe-epa).- The government of the United States and the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, asked Australia, in separate submissions, to reconsider a proposed bill to make tech giants including Google and Facebook to pay local media for publishing their content.
The proposed legislation, which was presented to the Australian parliament last month, seeks to compel major technology companies to negotiate payments to local media for the content that they post on their digital platforms.
According to the new rule, if both parties cannot reach an agreement, the government will appoint an intermediary to decide the amount to be paid.
January 20, 2021 11:13
The co-founders of CarExpert – who also founded CarAdvice, before it was bought by Nine and retired as a brand late last year – have waded into the contentious News Media Bargaining Code debate, throwing its support behind both Google and Facebook.
CarAdvice owed much of its early success to Google, according to co-founders Alborz Fallah and Paul Maric, and CarExpert is now in a similar position. Both of the big platforms are welcome to access CarExpert content for free, they stated, because it benefits them too.
Fallah and his co-founder have expressed strong support for Facebook and Google
“Google has always been at the forefront of helping small publishers establish their brand,” said co-founder and managing editor, Maric.
Last year the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had published draft regulation that would force American tech companies like Google and Facebook to subsidize traditional Australian media companies like
On 10 December 2020, the Australian Senate established an inquiry into the proposed bargaining code between media organisations and digital platforms. The Conversation made this submission.