India plans to make Google, Facebook pay news publishers for using their content: All you need to know

The Minister of State for IT and Electronics, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said the government is currently thinking about revising the IT laws to facilitate the changes. “The market power on digital advertising that is currently being exercised by the Big Tech majors, which places Indian media companies at a position of disadvantage, is an issue that is seriously being examined in the context of new legalizations and rules,” Chandrasekhar told TOI.

Chandrashekhar added that the original content creators have not benefitted from the growth of social media and tech platforms in India but fail to share the revenue with the original content creators. “The news publishers have no negotiating leverage at all, and this needs to be tackled legislatively. This is an important issue for us,” he said. Only last year, Chandrasekhar had said that it has no plans to make the big tech companies pay for the local news.

“The code will guarantee that news media organizations are genuinely compensated for the substance they create, assisting with supporting public-interest reporting in Australia,” Josh Frydenberg and Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said in a joint explanation. They likewise said that the public authorities were “satisfied to see improvement by both Google and, all the more as of late, Facebook in arriving at business plans with Australian news media organizations.”

In the aftermath of the Australian government,

Facebook blocked clients from seeing and sharing news on stage over a regulation that powers the tech organization to pay the news distributors for utilizing their substance. In May 2022, the Canadian government proposed a regulation to achieve decency in the dividing of income among computerized news distributors and the virtual entertainment stages, including Google and Facebook.

Such regulation needs to become effective because the organizations procure income from news content distributed by media houses; however, they don’t impart the income to the first makers.

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