Google has fulfilled its agreement with the Canadian government by transferring $100 million to the Canadian Journalism Collective. This payment is intended to compensate news outlets for the use of their content by Google and exempts the company from the Online News Act. The collective plans to distribute the funds to eligible media businesses by the end of January.
Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to disperse the funds.
The U.S. tech giant confirmed it has transferred the money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, a federally incorporated non-profit organization led by independent publishers and broadcasters. The collective said in mid-December that it was working to distribute the first tranche of funds by the end of January to media businesses whose work was shared or repurposed by Google.
It estimated eligible publishers will receive about $13,798 per full-time equivalent journalist it employs based on a 200-hour year. Broadcasters will receive about $6,806 per eligible worker.Google agreed to pay the money in 2023 to exempt it from the Online News Act, which compelled the company and Meta to pay for their use of journalism. Meta has avoided having to make any payments by blocking access to Canadian news on its platforms.
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