Google announced that it will pay more than 100 billion yen to news media, why are you worried?
On October 1, 2020, Google announced ' Google News Showcase, ' a new service of Google News, a new service of Google News . Through this service, Google will pay affiliated news publishers a total of $ 1 billion over the next three years.
Our $ 1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers
Google to Pay Publishers Over $ 1 Billion for News Content --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/google-to-pay-publishers-over-1-billion-to-license-news-content
Google to Pay Publishers Over $ 1 Billion for News Content --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/google-to-pay-publishers-over-1-billion-to-license-news-content
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new service, 'Google News Showcase,' on its official blog on October 1st. This is a function to display a timeline, summary, and related articles by newly establishing a story panel on Google News on Android, and the panel will be linked directly to the site of the news publisher instead of the Google page. Google plans to roll out the new service first to Android users in Germany and Brazil, and then gradually expand to Google News on iOS and users in other regions.
According to Pichai, Google has already partnered with about 200 news publishers in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and will charge each news publisher a total article usage fee over the next three years. He said he would pay $ 1 billion. In addition, as part of our partnership with news publishers, we plan to offer some of the paid articles from our affiliated news publishers for free to make paid content easier to reach our readers.
In the announcement, Pichai said, 'The biggest financial commitment we have ever made is to pay news publishers and provide a different online news experience for quality content. It's meant to be produced and curated . '
While IT giants such as Google and Facebook make huge profits in the news business, the Australian government has embarked on legislation requiring payment of article usage fees, etc. over the problem that profits are not returned to news publishers. I am.
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In addition, the EU has been criticized as 'too strict and destroys the Internet' for the purpose of protecting content producers, in the ' Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Copyright Directive) '. We have decided to enact it.
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In response to these criticisms, Google has indicated its intention to announce a 'new licensing program to support the news industry' in June 2020.
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In response to Google's new initiative, Stefan Ottlitz, head of product development for the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, one of the news publishers affiliated with Google, said: 'New content like Google News Showcase and Der Spiegel. The integration shows Google's commitment to supporting quality journalism in Germany. '
Meanwhile, Angela Mills Wade, executive director of the European Publishers Council , said, 'With the new products, they make news publishers drink the terms and negotiate fairly,' with the DSM Copyright Directive mentioned above in mind. It will be possible to undermine the law designed to meet the conditions, 'he said, expressing a sense of crisis that Google might undermine the law.
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