Publications to receive the funding include Time Out,The Greek Herald and Australian Chinese Daily.
Rod Sims believes the tech giants and media companies would still be negotiating commercial deals if it weren’t for the threat of Australia’s landmark laws.
Two former senior Nine executives,Chris Janz and David Eisman,will lead negotiations with Google and Meta for the NZ publishing industry.
Australia’s television sector wants additional measures added to landmark news media laws to ensure Google and Meta strike commercial deals for years to come.
The internet giant has signed deals to pay publishers in Germany,France and four other EU countries for their news.
The next Australian government has one real chance to make the company pay.
At the time,Facebook said it had made “mistakes” in the blocking of thousands of pages from its platform but internally its most senior leaders were delighted with the project.
Outgoing ACCC chair Rod Sims says the government must consider using its powers under the media bargaining code to force Facebook to negotiate with SBS and The Conversation.
The federal government will review whether Google and Facebook have struck enough local deals to avoid being legally forced into negotiations with media companies.
Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has raised concerns about Facebook’s failure to do deals with publishers for use of their content and says they might have to be forced to do so.
The warning on the metaverse is clear:“This is probably the most invasive surveillance technology we’re going to bring into our homes in the next decade.”