Big tech to pay more if no deal reached with Australian media

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/big-tech-google-australian-media-news-bargaining-/106989038

Companies like Google will have to pay a higher percentage of their ad revenue to media companies if they fail to make a deal, but have won a key concession that protects the broader revenue of their business.

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Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 17d

AI companies will continue to be excluded from the scheme

So if I'm understanding this correctly the companies who actually make the news discoverable and link to the original site will have to pay the news companies? And the companies who plagiarise the content without giving any credit or linking to the original source get away with it?

I'm not usually one to bat for Google or Meta but this seems like the one time they're being called out unfairly