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ACCC green lights CPA members to bargain with Google & Facebook April 29, 2021 11:19 Members of Country Press Australia (CPA) can now begin collectively bargaining with Google and Facebook over payments for their news content. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has granted interim authorisation for negotiations to begin over news that is published on Google and Facebook from the 81 members and 160 regional newspapers the CPA represents. Members can not only collectively negotiate with Google and Facebook respectively, but also engage in discussions with each other and ...

iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Apr 29, 2021 5:54pm In the coming weeks, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is expected to table a bill that will regulate digital platforms and require big tech to pay Canadian news agencies for their content. Over the past few months, News Media Canada, which represents newspaper publishers, including Torstar which owns iPolitics, as well as big tech, including Google and Facebook, have been communicating with the government and MPs about the upcoming legislation. Society needs to guard against the idea that news is a luxury, said Damien Collin...

Surprise changes may stop Google leaving Australia Tech giants Google and Facebook have won major changes to Australian laws that would see them pay for the news they use. Business by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson 16th Feb 2021 2:42 PM Tech giants Google and Facebook have won a series of last-minute reforms to laws that would see them pay for the news they use in Australia following meetings with government officials and the possibility of more "lucrative" deals with media outlets. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg today revea...