“These are the statements and actions of a monopolist flexing its considerable muscle to try and divert attention from the real issue – paying a fair price for the news content that creates value for the platforms.
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Google’s cynical ploy to mislead and frighten Australians shows why the Code is necessaryįree TV Australia said that the deliberately misleading “Open Letter to Australians” published today by Google highlights exactly why the mandatory Code is urgently needed.įree TV Chief Executive Officer, Bridget Fair, said: “Google has shown once again how important free, strong independent news media industry is in Australia so that they can hold Google to account for pushing such deliberately inaccurate information to its users.
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Mel Silva, Managing Director, on behalf of Google Australia Free TV Australia responded: You’ll hear more from us in the coming days – stay tuned. We’re going to do everything we possibly can to get this proposal changed so we can protect how Search and YouTube work for you in Australia and continue to build constructive partnerships with news media businesses – not choose one over the other. This law wouldn’t just impact the way Google and YouTube work with news media businesses – it would impact all of our Australian users, so we wanted to let you know. But rather than encouraging these types of partnerships, the law is set up to give big media companies special treatment and to encourage them to make enormous and unreasonable demands that would put our free services at risk.
#Google news headlines license#
We’ve offered to pay more to license content. We partner closely with Australian news media businesses - we already pay them millions of dollars and send them billions of free clicks every year. We deeply believe in the importance of news to society. There’s no way of knowing if any data handed over would be protected, or how it might be used by news media businesses. Under this law, Google has to tell news media businesses “how they can gain access” to data about your use of our products. You trust us with your data and our job is to keep it safe. The proposed changes are not fair and they mean that Google Search results and YouTube will be worse for you. We’ve always treated all website owners fairly when it comes to information we share about ranking. News media businesses alone would be given information that would help them artificially inflate their ranking over everyone else, even when someone else provides a better result. The law would force us to give an unfair advantage to one group of businesses – news media businesses – over everyone else who has a website, YouTube channel or small business. We could no longer guarantee that under this law. You’ve always relied on Google Search and YouTube to show you what’s most relevant and helpful to you. The way Aussies search every day on Google is at risk from new regulation
We need to let you know about new Government regulation that will hurt how Australians use Google Search and YouTube.Ī proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia. Read the letter and the then below the responses from the media industry and ACCC.
The managing director of Google Australia & New Zealand Mel Silva (pictured) yesterday provoked media companies with a letter addressed to all Australians.
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