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Google opens paid-for Australian platform in drive to undercut Government’s proposed content payment laws
Google has launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for after striking its own content deals with publishers.
Key points:
- The platform offering news Google has paid for is part of a drive to show new laws are unnecessary
- The Federal Government has proposed world first legislation to enforce Google to pay for news
- Google says it looks forward to striking agreements with more Australian publishers
It’s part of a drive to show that world-first legislation proposed by the Federal Government to enforce payments is unnecessary.
Only rolled out previously in Brazil and Germany, the News Showcase platform was originally slated for launch last June.
But Alphabet-owned Google delayed plans when the Government moved to make it a legal…
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