Albanese government unveils charge to incentivise digital platforms to pay publishers
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Digital platforms will be forced to pay for Australian news regardless of whether they enter new deals with publishers, preventing companies like Meta side-stepping the news media bargaining code.
On Thursday the Albanese government unveiled its “news bargaining incentive”, a charge applied to digital platforms which they are effectively refunded by an offset if they pay news companies directly instead.
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