After legal battles, now Google says it will pay out publishers for ‘new news experience’
27 June, 2020
Google will pay partnered press publishers in three countries and provide some users free usage of paywalled news sites, the tech giant said Thursday.
The announcement employs legal battles in France and Australia over Google’s refusal to pay news organizations for content.
In a weblog post the organization said they would launch “a licensing process to pay publishers for high-quality content for a new news experience” due to launch later this year.
Brad Bender, Google’s vice-president of product operations, said they had experienced discussions with partnered publishers-including the Spiegel Group on Germany, Schwartz media on Australia and Brazil’s Diarios Associados-for almost a year, “with an increase of to come.”
“Google will also offer to cover free access for users to learn paywalled articles on a publisher’s site,” the assertion said, without giving any further details.
Bender said this program will help publishers “monetize their articles through an increased storytelling experience.”
He added it could build on the 2018 Google News Initiative, a $300 million job that aimed to deal with disinformation online and help media sites grow financially.
It employs growing calls for net tech titans, notably Google, to cover content.
A number of European and global publications-including AFP-possess called on europe to adopt regulations requiring internet companies to cover the materials they produce.
In April, France’s competition regulator said the strong must start paying out media groups for displaying their content material, ordering it to commence negotiations after refusing for months to comply with Europe’s brand-new digital copyright law.
And previously this month, Google rejected an Australian ruling that it shell out vast sums of dollars per year in payment to local press under a government-imposed income sharing deal.
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