The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry has made a strong pitch for the big tech to share revenuw with digital news publishers.바카라 웹사이트
In a message to the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) conference on Friday, Union I&B Ministry Secretary Apurva Chandra said Australia, Canada, France, and European Union (EU) have already taken the initiative through their legislatures and strengthened their competition commissions to ensure a fair split of revenue among the creators of news content and the aggregators.바카라 웹사이트
The big tech refers to large companies such as Facebook and Google and aggregators are platforms like Google News or Yahoo News that feature content from original publishers. There is a line of thought that says social media companies like Facebook should pay the news organisations when their content is shared on their platform.바카라 웹사이트
Chandra said, “For the growth of the news industry, it is important that the digital news platform of all these publishers which are the creators of original content get a fair share of the revenue from the Big Tech platforms which act as an aggregator of the content created by others.”
Chandra said that post-Covid, there have been issues regarding the financial health of not just the digital news industry, but also the print news industry.
He said, “It is clear that if the traditional news industry continues to be negatively impacted, the future of journalism, our fourth pillar, is also hit. Thus, this is a question of journalism and credible content as well.”바카라 웹사이트
Chandra said the traditional news industry has a history of service to the nation.바카라 웹사이트
He said, “I understand that they have in place adequate systems of checks and balances to ensure that correct and factual news flows out and are a good example of our stated policy of self-regulation.”바카라 웹사이트
Though news publishers abroad have supporter such a proposal, platforms like Facebook have resisted such moves. Their argument is that they are merely an intermediary and users share news content as per their will.바카라 웹사이트
In 2021, Australia passed a law requiring Facebook and Google for news content hosted on their website. Initially, Facebook began all news content in Australia but later entered into deals with media organisations to host their content and share revenue.바카라 웹사이트
(With PTI inputs)
