Australia Passes Law To Make Facebook and Google Pay For News

[engine]

We've been watching this develop over the recent months, and now Australia passes its law to make Google and Facebook pay for news. You can read the developments in the earlier threads for the background.

This is important, and a world's first and may set a precedent elsewhere.

Following those talks, the law passed with new amendments which make it possible for Facebook and Google not to be subject to the code.

However, both companies have now committed to paying lucrative sums to some big Australian publishers outside of the code. These deals have been widely viewed as a compromise by the tech giants.

[bbc.co.uk...]

Earlier threads
Facebook Secures News Deal in Australia [webmasterworld.com]
Facebook Moves to Stop Australians Sharing News Ahead of New "Code" [webmasterworld.com]
Australia to Amend Proposed Law Making Google & Facebook Pay for News [webmasterworld.com]
Google Argues Australia's proposed "News Media Bargaining Code" Will Have "Negative Consequences" [webmasterworld.com]

[tangor]

Historic. Next: Which nation will follow suit?

[heisje]

Mashed potato of marginal interest. Big Tech partially caving in to very powerful local Australian publishing interests. Otherwise the criminal misappropriation of the web goes uninterrupted on. Big deal . . . .
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[anotoki]

europe should follow

[MarkSabier89]

I think this will be a turning point in the history of these companies. Soon all of Europe will follow a similar example. So let's see what happens next.

[Brett_Tabke]

> Historic. Next: Which nation will follow suit?

Looks like the US!

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[phranque]

engine posted this story yesterday:
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[edwsteel]

Too much power with IT giants is not a good thing. They go uncontrolled, unelected and even uknown to everybody's bedroom with their gadgets.