Danish media firms join forces to seek payment deal with Facebook, Google Reuters Copenhagen | Updated on × Representatives of 29 Danish media companies, including state broadcaster DR, will gather on Friday for their first meeting Denmark’s media industry is banding together to negotiate payments for news with Google and Facebook, the first attempt in Europe to collectively pursue claims with the tech giants. Representatives of 29 Danish media companies, including state broadcaster DR, partly state-funded TV2, as well as most major newspaper publishers, will gather on Friday for their first meeting. “We believe that a collective management of our rights will make for the best and most fair value regarding big tech’s use of our content,” Stig Orskov, chief executive of media company JP /Politikens Hus, told Reuters.