Canadian media organizations are heralding Facebook’s decision to back away from its news sharing ban in Australia as a win for financially struggling news publishers across the world.
Australia has been at the front-line of governments pushing to make digital platforms pay for journalism and Facebook’s decision is “very significant” for Canada, said John Hinds, president of News Media Canada, a lobbying group.
“I think once these agreements have been made, and once the platforms agree in principle, it really is about moving to the mechanisms of how it’s going to be applied in Canada,” said Hinds, who supports Canada’s adopting a model like Australia’s.
I dunno, this doesn’t sound like much of a win.
