Ill. Mulls Journalism Usage Fee for Big Tech
The News/Media Alliance supported an Illinois bill requiring tech platforms to pay media companies usage fees, ahead of a state Senate Executive Committee hearing planned for Wednesday. The Illinois bill (SB-3591) by state Sen. Steve Stadelman (D) would require big…
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tech companies like Meta and Google to pay news publishers a journalism usage fee to use local news content. The California Assembly passed a similar bill (AB-886), but it stalled last year in the Senate (see 2307060034). “The dominant tech platforms share our publishers’ content, keeping our readers on their platforms and showing them ads, while generating tremendous revenue off of our content with no return to news publications,” said News/Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey in written remarks. “This broken marketplace must be addressed through government action.”