Big Tech in Indonesia may start paying news outlets for content


JAKARTA, Nov 23 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Media groups are pushing for a draft regulation to make news aggregators pay publishers for displayed content, a regulation meant to support the domestic news industry.

Sources told The Jakarta Post that the new regulation was based on Australia's News Media Bargaining Code - the first law of its kind in the world - passed in February this year.

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