CANBERRA, 20 April 2020, 03:45 — REGNUM. Australian Authorities want to force companies Facebook and Google to pay news organizations for using their content. On this April 20, reported the website of ABC Corporation.
Australian Commission on competition and consumer protection (ACCC) has developed a code of conduct that imposes rules requiring Facebook, Google and other companies to make deductions in favor of the news agencies if they enjoy their content.
it is Noted that the company will be required to follow this code, which will also regulate the questions relating to the exchange of data, ranking news and income distribution. If the company will ignore the rules, she will have to pay a fine.
the representatives of the ACCC have stated that they understand hardly the IT giants have voluntarily agreed to make such payments, but pay attention that the government Treasurer Josh Frydenberg previously said that news agencies need to get paid for the work that they do.
After March 2019 in France came into force new copyright law, Google said that if the content Creator does not grant permission to use snippets of news and articles, it simply will remove them from search results.
Today, social media serves billions of active users worldwide. This means that they contained personal information are increasingly the subject of interest from big business and special services.
the world’s Largest social network Facebook has admitted in the provision of access to data of users to third parties. Around the “Vkontakte” not the first month there are disputes due transfer of personal materials and correspondence to law enforcement. Particularly acute problem betrayed a wave of criminal prosecutions for the “repost” someone else’s message in the social network or stored in a social network in a closed form of images.
