Google to pay Canada's "link tax," drops threat of removing news from search
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Google will contribute $100 million in financial support annually, indexed to inflation, for a wide range of news businesses across the country, including independent news businesses and those from Indigenous and official-language minority communities," Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge said in a statement today.
After extensive discussions, the Canadian Government agreed to a number of changes to address our deeply held concerns that C-18 would require payment for links and create uncapped financial liability through an unworkable bargaining process, simply for helping Canadians find relevant and useful information," Google said in a statement provided to Ars.
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