{"id":1028706,"date":"2026-08-14T07:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028706"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:58:11","slug":"australia-to-make-tech-companies-pay-more-outlets-for-content-under-reworked-media-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/australia-to-make-tech-companies-pay-more-outlets-for-content-under-reworked-media-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to make tech companies pay more outlets for content under reworked media law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will raise the number of deals large tech firms \u200bmust strike with local news \u200boutlets under a revamp of its media licensing laws \u200bto be introduced to parliament on Thursday, the government said, adding the measure would distribute advertising revenue to more domestic outlets. <\/p>\n<p>The changes also commit the government to giving 5% \u200cof funds raised \u2060under \u2060the scheme to the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the formerly industry-owned newswire service, which now runs as a non-profit. <\/p>\n<p>Changes made after discussions between government and opposition would also require digital \u200bplatforms to strike deals with at least eight media companies, up from six in an earlier draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will raise the number of deals large tech firms \u200bmust strike with local news \u200boutlets under a revamp of its media licensing laws \u200bto be introduced to parliament on Thursday, the government said, adding the measure would distribute advertising revenue to more domestic outlets. The changes also commit the government to giving 5% \u200cof funds raised \u2060under \u2060the scheme to the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the formerly industry-owned newswire service, which now runs as a non-profit. Changes made after discussions between government and opposition would also require digital \u200bplatforms to strike deals with at least eight media companies, up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028728,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028706\/revisions\/1028728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}