{"id":119729,"date":"2021-02-18T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/google-and-facebook-the-landmark-australian-law-that-will-make-them-pay-for-news-content"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:22:28","slug":"google-and-facebook-the-landmark-australian-law-that-will-make-them-pay-for-news-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/google-and-facebook-the-landmark-australian-law-that-will-make-them-pay-for-news-content","title":{"rendered":"Google and Facebook: the landmark Australian law that will make them pay for news content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-and-facebook-the-landmark-australian-law-that-will-make-them-pay-for-news-content2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian parliament is poised to pass a landmark media law that would make Google and Facebook pay news publishers for displaying their content. The Australian law is separate to a deal Facebook made to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to license their articles, but has a similar motivation. The legislation, which will be debated this week, is designed to support Australian public interest journalism and is backed by all the nation\u2019s media companies, big and small.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Despite protestations from both companies, the Australian parliament is set to pass legislation it says is needed to boost public interest journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Australian parliament is poised to pass a landmark media law that would make Google and Facebook pay news publishers for displaying their content. The Australian law is separate to a deal Facebook made to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to license their articles, but has a similar motivation. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}