News media and digital platforms bargaining code - views sought

‘The ACCC is seeking views to inform its work on developing a new draft mandatory code that will address bargaining power imbalances between Australia’s news media businesses and Google and Facebook.‘

It has released a ‘concepts paper’ setting out a range of issues about which it is seeing feedback.

See ACCC, News media bargaining code project site

Responses are due by 5 June 2020.

For news see, for example:

• Natasha Gillezeau, ‘ACCC solicits views on media, big tech code of conduct’ (AFR, 19 May 2020)

• Zoe Samios, ‘Watchdog seeks input on tech titan payments to publishers for news’ (SMH, 19 May 2020)

• Nassim Khadem, ‘News publishers could boycott Google and Facebook under ACCC proposal’ (ABC News, 20 May 2020)