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‘It’s a bad deal’: Google’s offer to pay French publishers revealed – Sydney Morning Herald
Details of a deal struck between Google and French publishers reveal how much the tech giant might pay local media companies for their content.
Nine, owner of this masthead, has said it thinks the two digital giants should be forced to pay Australian media companies up to $600 million annually, while Rupert Murdochs News Corp has said they should pay $1 billion.
Google has threatened to turn off its search engine in Australia if the code becomes law, while Facebook has said it will be forced to remove news articles from its main app if revisions to the code are not made.
No French publisher would speak publicly to this masthead about their…
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