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Australia Wants Google and Facebook to Pay the News Media



SYDNEY — U.S. tech titans Google and Facebook will know in the next few months how much they will have to pay Australian media companies to use original news content on their digital platforms.

A compulsory bargaining code the Australian government is devising may prove a template for other jurisdictions around the world in the continuing battle over the value of news.


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