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Anya SchiffrinSeptember 3, 2024

Would a tech tax be a fair way to make Google and Meta pay for the news they distribute and profit from?

“Every country needs to address the theft of intellectual property that diminishes both the incentives and ability to produce the news on which we all — including the platforms — depend. The bargaining codes were a start.”

Peter GresteMarch 4, 2024

Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it?

“If we accept that news is a public good, not something we can treat as a product to be traded like soap, then we have to develop economic models that somehow get the public to pay for it.”

Alfred HermidaDecember 5, 2023

Google’s $100 million to Canada’s news industry is a small price to pay to avoid regulation

“Bill C-18 is a test case of the power of platforms like Google and Meta to run and control Canada’s communications infrastructures. While the agreement allows all sides to claim victory, it is clear that Google successfully extracted key concessions over how it is regulated in Canada.”

Diana BossioJune 27, 2023

Canada’s Online News Act may let Meta and Google decide the winners and losers in the media industry

“Our interviews showed that platforms were able to push for individual deals that aligned with their own business priorities.”

Taylor Owen and Supriya DwivediAugust 9, 2022

Canada’s Online News Act shows how other countries are learning from Australia’s news bill

The potential here is for democratic governments to evolve their digital policy models based on each other’s experiences.

Natalia VianaJune 2, 2022

Should Google pay for news in Brazil? It’s complicated

No solution is ideal. The worst thing that journalists can do, however, is to step aside and let media owners and platforms decide among themselves.

Joshua BentonFebruary 2, 2022

Australia’s latest export is bad media policy, and it’s spreading fast

The U.K. and Canada look ready to copy Australia’s idea to force Google and Facebook to give publishers money. But it’s a warped system that rewards the wrong things and lies about where the real value in news lies.

Hal CrawfordNovember 4, 2021

News organizations have a few things to learn from charities

“Readers want to be contributing to something that is successful. So you have to be careful about crisis messaging, saying, ‘Oh gosh, we’re going to go under if we don’t get support.'”

Joshua BentonSeptember 8, 2021

An Australian court ruling makes publishers legally responsible for every idiot Facebook user who leaves a comment

Is a defamatory comment left on your Facebook page more like graffiti on a wall, a streaker on live TV, or a hand-delivered telegram? Whatever your metaphor, Australian courts now say publishers are legally liable for words they neither wrote nor published.

David SkokJuly 12, 2021

On big tech and news publishers, Canada must follow Australia’s lead

The federal government should follow Australia’s lead in forcing arbitration between platforms and publishers when needed.

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