Google Responds to Australia’s Plan to Force Online Platforms Pay for News Content
https://www.theguardian.com“In the offline print world, publishers have long paid retailers, newsstands and kiosks to distribute their newspapers and magazines – acknowledging the value of acquiring audiences to a publishers’ content and the advertising publishers sell alongside it,” Google Australia’s managing director, Mel Silva, said in a lengthy riposte to the government’s instruction to the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code to force the digital platforms to pay for using news content.
In its response to the landmark digital platforms inquiry in December, the federal government had originally asked the ACCC to develop a voluntary code between media companies and digital platforms including Google and Facebook.
