As Bill C-18 Heads for Final House Vote, the Reality is Artificial Intelligence Renders Bill Already Out of Date
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The Online News Act, the government’s legislative initiative to make Google and Meta pay hundreds of Canadian media companies for links to their news content, is likely to become law before politicians break for the summer later this week. Indeed, the bill will likely be passed by the House as soon as this afternoon following a debate in which government MPs likened publishers posting their news articles on social media to peer-to-peer file sharing and warned that they aren’t interested in “exposure” (which is exactly what they are looking for). Since the government is
As Bill C-18 Heads for Final House Vote, the Reality is Artificial Intelligence Renders Bill Already Out of Date
As Bill C-18 Heads for Final House Vote, the…
As Bill C-18 Heads for Final House Vote, the Reality is Artificial Intelligence Renders Bill Already Out of Date
The Online News Act, the government’s legislative initiative to make Google and Meta pay hundreds of Canadian media companies for links to their news content, is likely to become law before politicians break for the summer later this week. Indeed, the bill will likely be passed by the House as soon as this afternoon following a debate in which government MPs likened publishers posting their news articles on social media to peer-to-peer file sharing and warned that they aren’t interested in “exposure” (which is exactly what they are looking for). Since the government is