that the company generates just $10 million in revenue a year from news-related queries in Australia and that publishers benefit more from search traffic than Google does from news.
Under a payment model proposed by Nine, which was submitted to the competition regulator on Friday, money would be collected from the digital giants and put in a pool which would be distributed between large and small publishers by a collecting society, such as the Australian Press Council or The Australian Communications and Media Authority.
“The alternative would be split it based on traffic or clicks, but you can play games with how you grow the number of clicks which we think is a bad incentive. The majority should go to the larger organisations that are spending significant amounts in journalism.”
zoesam93 A bigger influence on Australia's news industry is abcnews. How are commercial news operations supposed to compete against a non-commercial news operation as large as any commercial operation, that gives its content away for free?
zoesam93 I would agree, if, they were doing REAL journalism, I cant comprehend why they should pay for opinion pieces that are not even factual.
zoesam93 Id settle for them to pay their fair share of taxes and give something back to everyday Australians.
zoesam93 ha ha ha ha and of course 9 will no longer use facebook or instagram or google or twitter material which they now use for free. Who’s Hughie think he’s kidding? Wake up Hughie Channel9 9NewsAUS