Google settles with feds on Bill C-18 – The Catholic Register
The Google Canada and federal government standoff over Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is over.
Links to Canadian media publications will continue to have domain on the world’s most popular search engine after the two sides came to an agreement Nov. 29, 20 days before the tech giant intended to follow Meta’s footsteps and ban news content on its search engine.
Google has agreed to pay $100 million annually — indexed to inflation — to the country’s news publishers to comply with this new law, which is a sizable reduction from the $172 million annual windfall projected by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) in June.
In a statement, Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, stated he was “pleased that the Government of Canada has committed to addressing our core issues with Bill C-18, which included the need for a streamlined path to an exemption at a clear commitment threshold.”
Google secured the cost certainty it desired. In October, the company warned…
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