European Publishers And Microsoft Call For Australian-style Arbitration
Europe’s press publishers and Microsoft have agreed to work together on a solution to ensure that publishers get paid for the use of their content by gatekeepers that have dominant market power.
The solution will be in line with the objectives of the new neighbouring right in the EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive, which comes into force this June and “take inspiration” from the new Australian legislation that requires the tech gatekeepers covered by that law to share revenue with news organisations, the publishers said in a statement.
Although press publishers have been granted a neighbouring right in the EU, negotiations with gatekeepers will not produce fair outcomes unless additional regulatory measures are brought forward to address gatekeepers with dominant market power, through appropriate regulatory frameworks such as the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act or other national laws, the publishers added .