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Canada teams up with Australia to get Facebook and Google to compensate publishers

Canada joins Canada’s position vis-à-vis the digital giants for companies such as Google and Facebook to remunerate the journalistic work of the media.

“The prime ministers have mentioned the growing cooperation between Canada and Australia in the regulation of online platforms. They have agreed to continue coordinating efforts to address the damage online and ensure that the income of the internet giants is shared in a fairer way with the creators and the media, “read a statement from Justin Trudeau on Tuesday.

In a conference call, Canadian Trudeau has expressed support for his oceanic counterpart Scott Morrison, an approach to the Australian to create new regulations for large platforms.

Australia has passed legislation that requires search engines and social networks such as Google or Facebook to pay for the use of content by publishers. The social network created by Mark Zuckerberg had responded with a news blackout, so that Australian media news were not visible through the platform, while Australian Internet users could not see information from other countries.

This Wednesday, Facebook put an end to that blockade, imposed on February 18. Former number 2 of the British Government Nick Clegg, current vice president of Facebook, defended this Wednesday that “the internet needs new rules that work for everyone, not just for the big media corporations.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft this week announced its partnership with the main business associations of media in Europe to find a solution that forces search engines and social networks to compensate the media for their content. In other words, not all technology companies refuse to compensate publishers.

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