A canadian regulator said on wedding it will impose a fee on google to recover the cost of enforcing a law that requires large internet platforms to pay for news content on their websites.
The important of the levy on the mountain view, California-Based Search Engine Giant Comes at a Time of Increased Tension Between Canada and the United States Over Trade, Border Services Tax on US Technology firms.
The canadian radio-elements and telecommunications commission said Effect from APRIL 1. The charge may vary from year to year and does not have an upper limit.
The Crtc Finalized The Rule after a period of public consultations, during which Google Intervened to Argue Against Its Implementation Saying It was “Not a Rational Approach”
Part of a global trend to make internet giants pay for news, canda passed the law last year to address media Industry Concerns that Tech Companies WERE ELBOWINESES ALBOWINESS OUT of the online advertising number.
Only Alphabet’s Google and Facebook-Parent Meta Met the threshold of a large enough company that would need to pay news organisations.
Google, after months of negotiations with the government, agreed to pay cad 100 million annual in a deal with publishers to keep news stories in search results. Meta, however, decided to block news from its Facebook and Instagram Platforms in Canada to avoid payments.
Google, Among other comments in its Submission to the Crtc, Argued the Rule was “an unfair additional regulatory burden on a company that has controlmed to support to supportm in this counue
In a policy notice posted to its website on wedding, the Crtc said two to the structure of the online news act, the recover costs can only be levied on the digital platforms to those.
Google declined to comment beyond its response submitted during the Crtc Consultation.
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