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“On face value, the amendments keep the integrity of the media code intact,” the center’s director Peter Lewis said in a statement. A Senate committee that scrutinized the draft legislation after it was introduced to Parliament on Dec. 9 recommended last week that the code become law without changes. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the bill as unworkable. Google has threatened to make its search engine unavailable in… Source link

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Google and Facebook are close to striking “significant commercial deals” to pay Australian media for news ahead of Australia creating world-first laws that would force the digital giants to finance journalism. Parliament is scheduled to consider the draft laws on Tuesday after a Senate committee recommended no changes to the proposed regulations… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Google and Facebook are close to striking “significant commercial deals” to pay Australian media for news ahead of Australia creating world-first laws that would force the digital giants to finance journalism. Parliament is scheduled to consider the draft laws on Tuesday after a Senate committee recommended no changes to the proposed regulations… Source link

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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to drafts of the world’s first such laws. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has been scrutinizing the bill since it was introduced in Parliament in December. The senators rejected Facebook and Google’s arguments that the so-called media bargaining code, which would force the digital… Source link

To Google it began as a niggle in a small, far-off market: a public inquiry by Australia’s competition commission into Big Tech and the media. But four years on, Australia is at the vanguard of a global regulatory fightback that threatens to reset the terms of trade between tech platforms and the news media, and more importantly for Google, to erode fundamental pillars of the internet that helped it thrive.  Australia’s parliament is closing in on a statutory code that… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to drafts of the world’s first such laws. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has been scrutinizing the bill since it was introduced in Parliament in December. The senators rejected Facebook… Source link

“The U.S. government is concerned that any attempt, through legislation, to regulate the competitive positions of specific players in a fast-evolving digital market, to the clear detriment of two U.S. firms, may result in harmful outcomes,” Assistant U.S. Trade Representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers wrote in a submission to the committee dated Jan. 15 under the letterhead “Executive Office of the President.” But Google rival Microsoft supports the law. Microsoft President Brad… Source link