Google has declared war on the Australian competition regulator after the ACCC proposed a legally enforced settlement with newspaper publishers. In a widely published advertisment the local Google MD Mel Silva “A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”

This has left some puzzled that Google - the $150b pa juggernaut that makes it money from exploiting other peoples content and users seach data - feels able to attack newspapers as ‘big news businesses’ that cant be trusted.

Google has declared war on the Australian competition regulator after the ACCC proposed a legally enforced settlement with newspaper publishers. In a widely published advertisment the local Google MD Mel Silva “A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”

This has left some puzzled that Google - the $150b pa juggernaut that makes it money from exploiting other peoples content and users seach data - feels able to attack newspapers as ‘big news businesses’ that cant be trusted.

Google has declared war on the Australian competition regulator after the ACCC proposed a legally enforced settlement with newspaper publishers. In a widely published advertisment the local Google MD Mel Silva “A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”

This has left some puzzled that Google - the $150b pa juggernaut that makes it money from exploiting other peoples content and users seach data - feels able to attack newspapers as ‘big news businesses’ that cant be trusted.

To support effective licensing of Article 15 rights PDLN hosted 35 publisher representatives from 18 countries to discuss progress on the translation of the EU law on June 2nd.

A new call for tenders was published for the provision of impact assessments, evaluations and evaluation-related studies and services in the field of communication.

Natascha Thomas (42) has been appointed deputy managing director of PMG, heading up Sales and Business Development. Thomas was previously a member of the management…

Adam Suckling, CEO Copyright Australia and Virgina Morrison, Senior Solicitor, presented background and detail on the widely reported government intervention on platform licensing.

A ruling from Italian regulator Agcom on 5th May has required MMO Eco della Stampa to remove the content of leading newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore from its services. This ruling comes after many years of legal battles with two leading Italian MMOs

Alice Ting, who heads licensing at New York Times, was the main publisher voice at a joint PDLN, FIBEP and AMEC webinar on exclusive MMO - publisher agreements, attended by over 70 MMOs, publishers and licensing bodies on May 7th….