(Reuters) – Canada on Tuesday laid out details of a proposed laws that may compel digital platforms like Facebook and Google to negotiate business offers and pay news publishers for their content material, in a transfer comparable to Australia’s ground-breaking law handed final 12 months.
The ‘Online News Act’ would require digital platforms which have a bargaining imbalance, measured by metrics like a agency’s international income, with news companies to make honest offers, that may then be assessed by a regulator.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
