Canadian Publishers Want Collective Bargaining With Facebook and Google
Source: Erica Alini globalnews.ca, October 28, 2020
Google and Facebook control between 60 and 90 per cent of the digital advertising market, which has become an increasingly vital source of revenue for the publishing industry
A group of major Canadian publishers is calling on the federal government to enable the country’s media to collectively bargain with Google and Facebook when negotiating the use of their content and intellectual property.
News Media Canada — which represents newspaper publishers including the Globe and Mail, National Post publisher Postmedia, Toronto Star publisher Torstar, La Presse and Quebecor — says the two web giants have established an effective duopoly in the digital ads market that’s starving Canada’s media industry of revenue
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