Taking a cue from Australia, India should enact a law to make tech giants such as Facebook and Google pay local publishers of news content, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi demanded in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, the former deputy chief minister of Bihar said, “The government must make Google, Facebook and YouTube pay print and news channels for the news content they are using freely.”
The Indian government should take a cue from the Australian parliament that passed the world’s first law last month to ensure news media businesses are fairly remunerated for the content they generate, he said. “I would urge the government of India that the way they have notified Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code to regulate social media and OTT platforms, they should enact a law on the pattern of Australian Code so that we can compel Google to share its revenue with traditional media,” he added.
1/1. हमारे देश का प्रिंट मीडिया/ न्यूज TV चैनल समाचार संकलन करने से लेकर तथ्यपरक सच्चाई के लिए एक बड़े संस्थागत स्वरूप में विविध विधा के कर्मियों के साथ अरबों रुपये खर्च कर हमें समाचार प्रदान करता है। इनकी आमदनी का मुख्य स्रोत विज्ञापन है।— Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) March 17, 2021