A Liberal authorities invoice designed to require net giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content material has handed a last vote within the House of Commons at this time.
The House of Commons heritage committee added 18 amendments to the invoice, most of them NDP ideas so as to add readability on Indigenous news, eligibility necessities, negotiation timelines and transparency.
Liberal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has argued the proposed laws, often known as Bill C-18, would make the digital news market extra truthful by making a framework and bargaining course of for behemoths comparable to Google and Meta to pay media shops.
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Such corporations have roundly criticized the invoice as too imprecise, with Google warning {that a} provision requiring it to indicate no “undue” desire to sure shops might result in poorer-quality info being offered in search outcomes.
The vote handed 213 to 114, with Conservatives voting towards the invoice after arguing that it might give regulators an excessive amount of leeway to make selections about what’s and isn’t actual journalism.
