Google ‘outplayed and outmanoeuvered Ottawa’ on Online News Act deal, ‘outsourced’ problem of how to divide funding, say observers

In the new deal between Google and the feds, ‘the contentious part’ will now be ‘who gets what and how much do people get,’ said media transformation expert Alfred Hermida.

On Nov 29, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced the government had reached a deal with Google that would see it pay $100-million annually to the Canadian news industry, and avert the tech giant removing news links from its search results before a Dec. 19 cut-off.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

December 1, 2023

The deal between the federal government and Google on the Online News Act saw the tech giant get “effectively everything it wanted” while leaving open the question of who would be the winners and losers within the Canadian news industry, says a media expert at the Univer...

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