From Australia to Europe to Canada, governments in developed countries are moving to introduce laws that would make tech platforms pay news publishers for using and sharing their content.
Australia is at the forefront of this battle, with a news bargaining code that drove Google last month and Facebook this week to strike deals with Australian news publishers.
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