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Australian media group wants tech giants to pay $400m a year

Jacque Colbert by Jacque Colbert
May 14, 2020
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Australia last month announced plans to force Google, Facebook, and other internet firms to share advertising revenues earned from news content featured by their search engines.
Australia final month introduced plans to pressure Google, Fb, and different web companies to share promoting revenues earned from information content material featured by their search engines like google and yahoo.

SYDNEY: A number one writer known as Thursday for Google and different tech giants to pay Australian information retailers some A$600 million (US$400m) a 12 months below a compulsory code of conduct ordered by the federal government.

Australia final month introduced plans to pressure Google, Fb, and different web companies to share promoting revenues earned from information content material featured by their search engines like google and yahoo.

In an initiative being intently watched internationally, the federal government is because of unveil in July particulars of the necessary funds as a part of a code of conduct for the tech giants’ dealings with information media.

The chairman of 9 Leisure, Australia’s second-biggest media firm, argued Thursday that the fee ought to quantity to 10% of the tech firms’ promoting income in Australia — estimated by the federal government at some A$6.zero billion (US$3.9 billion) per 12 months.

Peter Costello stated the Australian Competitors and Client Fee (ACCC) had decided that 10% of the tech companies’ revenues derived from promoting on information content material.

“So, should you apply these figures, Google and Fb are taking about $600 million of promoting income out… which in any other case may have, or ought to have, been going to media,” he stated in an interview with 9’s Australian Monetary Evaluate newspaper.

“They’re basically utilizing the product which is created by information organisations with out paying for it,” he stated. “In actual fact, utilizing it to spice up their very own revenues and taking the promoting which in any other case would go to assist that journalism.”

The federal government stated it was imposing the code of conduct after months of negotiations on a voluntary settlement with Google, Fb and different firms failed to achieve an settlement.

Google and Fb protested the transfer and known as for continued negotiations. Each firms additionally insist they’ve invested thousands and thousands of {dollars} in initiatives in serving to Australia’s struggling information trade.

– ‘Trade resolution’ –

Costello dismissed the necessity for additional talks, saying one of the simplest ways to handle the problem is “an trade resolution, the place you sit down and attempt to estimate the worth that Google and Fb are getting from using this materials. We predict it is $600 million a 12 months”.

“These are trillion-dollar corporates, it isn’t as if it will undermine their profitability in the event that they needed to pay $600 million in income for copyright in Australia -– and I hope they’d see it that manner,” he stated.

Google and Fb have had a big impact on Australia’s information trade, capturing two-thirds of internet marketing spending.

In response to falling revenues, Australian information retailers have slashed 20% of jobs within the final six years.

The disaster has solely deepened within the financial and promoting downturn attributable to the coronavirus pandemic, which has already pressured the closure of many smaller information publishers.

If Australia is profitable in its efforts to make sure extra promoting income flows to publishers, it might be the primary nation to take action.

Australia’s new laws may even cowl the sharing of knowledge, and the rating and show of stories content material, to be enforced by binding dispute decision mechanisms and penalties.

An estimated 17 million Australians use Fb every month and spend a mean of 30 minutes on the platform a day, whereas 98% of Australian cell searches use Google.

— to www.bangkokpost.com

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