The News Media Alliance is praising a recent effort on
Capitol Hill.
Sen. John Kennedy
(R-LA) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) have introduced the “Journalism
Competition and Preservation Act” in the U.S. Senate. The bill, similar to H.R.
2054, introduced in the House last month by Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) and Rep.
David Cicilline (D-RI), would provide a limited safe harbor — a four-year
antitrust exemption — for news publishers to collectively negotiate with
Facebook and Google for better business arrangements.
A hearing before
the U.S. House Judiciary’s subcommittee on antitrust is set to address the
matter. The hearing is scheduled for June 11 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Testimony will
be available to see at judiciary.house.go.v
The News Media
Alliance has been vocal over the last year in advocating for such legislation,
which it believes is needed to address the imbalance in the news
publisher-platform relationship, according to a release from the News Media
Alliance.
The News Media
Alliance recently published findings from a new study that says
the platform received an estimated $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from
crawling and scraping news publishers’ content, without paying the publishers
for that use.
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