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February 23, 2021

Microsoft, EU publishers seek Australia-style news payments

By KELVIN CHAN
AP Business Writer

LONDON — Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia to get Google and Facebook to pay for journalism.

The Seattle tech giant and four big European Union news industry groups unveiled their plan Monday to work together on a solution to “mandate payments” for use of news content from online “gatekeepers with dominant market power.”


 
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