8/16/22, 2:01 PM 'Government wants Big Tech to pay news outlets for content' - The Economic Times

EXPAND

BENCHMARKS LIVE NSE GAINER-LARGE CAP FEATURED FUNDS

Pro Investing by Aditya Birla Sun L… INVEST NOW MARKET WATCH
Nifty 17,789.30 91.15 HDFC AMC 2,171.00 214.50

Subscribe Sign In

Industry Freedom Offer is Live!

English Edition | Today's Paper

Home ETPrime Markets News Industry RISE Politics Wealth Mutual Funds Tech Jobs Opinion NRI Panache ET NOW More

Auto Banking/Finance Cons. Products Energy Renewables Ind'l Goods/Svs Healthcare/Biotech Services Media/Entertainment More

Business News › Industry › Media/Entertainment › Media › 'Government wants Big Tech to pay news outlets for content'

'Government wants Big Tech to pay news outlets

for content'
By Pankaj Doval, TNN Last Updated: Jul 16, 2022, 08:40 AM IST
SHARE FONT SIZE SAVE PRINT COMMENT

Synopsis

A
The global digital and social media platforms have gained immensely from the rapid

A KUB
spread of internet and smartphones, and managed to grab advertising revenues as well
as viewership (both print and video). Newspapers and digital news publishers say that

Web SMS
this growth has been fuelled by the original content.

Verification
(This story originally appeared in
on Jul 16, 2022)

Code
The government is looking to make Big
Tech majors Google (which also owns
YouTube), Meta (owner of Facebook,
Instagram and WhatsApp), Microsoft, BUKA
Apple, Twitter, and Amazon pay Indian
newspapers and digital news
Union minister of state for IT and electronics
Rajeev Chandrasekhar publishers’ a share of revenue for using
their original content, following a
stance already adopted in Australia and to some degree within the European
Union.

The move is being mooted through regulatory interventions, which may

happen as part of revisions to the existing IT laws, minister of state for IT and
electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. Learn More

“The market power on digital advertising that is currently being exercised by

Popular in
the Big Tech majors, which places Indian media companies at a position of
Media/Entertainment
disadvantage, is an issue that is seriously being examined in the context of
new legalisations and rules,” Chandrasekhar told TOI, in perhaps the first 1. Indian broadcasters at
loggerheads with ICC over
official statement by the Indian government on plans to make the global media rights

internet giants pay for using news/information generated by independent

news and publishing outlets. 2. CRED’s Independence Day
travel sale is live. Avail
discounts on 25+

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/media/government-wants-big-tech-to-pay-news-outlets-for-content/articlesho… 1/5