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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show legislation proposed by Canberra to enforce payments, a world first, is unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Only rolled out previously in Brazil and Germany, the News Showcase platform was originally slated for launch last June. But Alphabet Inc-owned Google delayed plans when Canberra moved to make it a legal requirement for Google and Facebook to pay Australian media companies for content, unprecedented anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

The tech firm, still lobbying the Australian government in private meetings, has previously said was the legislation was \u201cunworkable\u201d and would force it to pull out of the country altogether if implemented.<\/p>\n

With the legislation now before a parliamentary inquiry, Friday\u2019s launch of News Showcase in Australia will see it will pay seven domestic outlets, including the Canberra Times, to use their content.<\/p>\n

Financial details of the content deals weren\u2019t disclosed, and Canberra Times publisher Australian Community Media didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Google said on Friday it looked forward to striking agreements with more Australian publishers, whose position has been bolstered by Canberra\u2019s aggressive push back against Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis provides an alternative to model put forward by the Australian government,\u201d said Derek Wilding, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney\u2019s Centre for Media Transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat remains to be seen is if larger publishers sign on to the product,\u201d said Wilding.<\/p>\n

Last month Reuters said it had signed a deal with Google to be the first global news provider to Google News Showcase. Reuters is owned by news and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp.<\/p>\n

Also last month Google and a French publishers\u2019 lobby agreed to a copyright framework for the tech firm to pay news publishers for content online, in a first for Europe.<\/p>\n

Under Canberra\u2019s proposed legislation, Google and Facebook would have to pay Australian publishers and broadcasters for content included in search results or news feeds. If they failed strike a deal with publishers, a government-appointed arbitrator would decide the price.<\/p>\n

While Google\u2019s public stance on potentially leaving the country remains firm, Australia\u2019s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said Google\u2019s approach had been \u201cconstructive\u201d in recent days during private meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prime Minister (Scott Morrison) and myself and (Communications Minister) Paul Fletcher had a very constructive discussion with the head of Google just yesterday,\u201d Frydenberg told reporters in Melbourne on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that discussion … they re-committed to Australia, we re-committed [to the legislation].\u201d<\/p>\n

Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment on its contacts with the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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