BS READS: How Australia's news bargaining code can address media's revenue woes

A new law in Australia that mandates Facebook and Google to pay news publishers might inspire similar legislation in other countries. To what degree will it solve news industry's revenue problem?

Yuvraj Malik
Last Updated at March 10, 2021 11:27 IST

Last week, the Australian government passed a law that made it compulsory for Big Tech firms like Facebook and Google to pay news organisations for using links to their work, setting a strong precedent in a long tug-of-war for revenue between the two camps.

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