Earlier this month, France’s competition authority ordered Google to pay news outlets for using snippets of their content in its search results and in the company’s news aggregation service. In a similar move, Australia is now forming a code of conduct that will force Google and Facebook to pay some moolah to media businesses for surfacing their content. As reported by ABC News, the federal government of Australia has ordered its competition commission to draw up a mandatory code of conduct for oversight of business deals between tech companies and news organizations. This code will also include rules on paying news outlets for…
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