In an open letter, Google has advised users in Australia that a free search and YouTube services are at risk if Australia implements a proposed law pushing it to pay to link to news services. Google has also suspended a news licensing system it started earlier in 2020, according to the Financial Post. Finally, it warned that Big News Businesses could demand extra cost beyond what they earn on YouTube ads, leaving a smaller share for individual creators.
“We already pay [news services] millions of dollars and send them billions of free clicks every year,” Google Australia’s managing director Mel Silva wrote. “But rather than encouraging these types of partnerships, the law is set up to give big media companies special treatment and to encourage them to make enormous and unreasonable demands that would put our free services at risk.”
Google’s YouTube blog its large publishers like News Corp against individaul creators. “Under this law, big news businesses can seek access to data about viewers’ use of our products,” it said. “They could use [that data to] try to appear higher in rankings on YouTube, disadvantaging all other creators.” Google added that the rule would complicate user data protection.
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