The federal government says Bill C-18, modelled on a similar law in Australia, is needed to bolster Canada’s struggling news industry, particularly local and regional papers
Canada’s news industry, including local papers, would get a cash injection of around $329-million a year if the federal government’s online news bill becomes law, according to a report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer.such as Facebook and Google pay for reusing articles produced by Canadian news organizations.
“More than 450 news organizations have closed since 2008,” said Laura Scaffidi, spokeswoman for Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. “Google and Meta earn 80 per cent of all digital advertising revenue in Canada. Advertising dollars that used to be spent on Canadian publications.” , Google and Apple have already signed some partnership deals with news organizations in Canada, including The Globe and Mail.“We heard from our consultation that some large companies have already concluded deals with digital platforms while most of the small businesses have not,” the PBO report published on Thursday said.
“$21-million in expenses for publishers to negotiate their first deals sounds high to my ear” he said. “These are relatively straightforward content licensing agreements, and I don’t think the PBO’s analysis is taking into account the large number of publishers that we expect will come together in a collective, which will reduce expenses meaningfully for individual publishers.”
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