It joins Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
joining Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers.
Canada’s media industry has called for tighter regulation of internet giants to allow news businesses to recoup financial losses suffered in the years that Facebook and GoogleThe independent budgetary watchdog in Canada estimated last year that news businesses could receive about C$330 million per year from deals mandated under the legislation.
Canada’s federal government has pushed back against suggestions to make changes, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in June accused the companies of using “bullying tactics”. Google’s president of global affairs, Mr Kent Walker, said in a blog post that the law remains unworkable and that the company did not believe regulatory process would be able to resolve “structural issues with the legislation”.
Google will also end its News Showcase program in Canada, under which the company has agreements with 150 news publications across the country. Reuters has a contract with Google to produce News Showcase panels, including in Canada.
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