Pearce told KQED he is also concerned about the public funding provisions in the agreement. "There's a real risk of news publishers in California doing unsavory things... We need a law, not lobbying mayhem."
Pearce supports a different funding model, similar to stricter laws passed in Canada and Australia that apply to more tech companies than just Google. The Media Guild of the West proposed six recommendations to improve the settlement..."
"These companies, whether through banning hyperlinks or degrading them on their services - which almost all platforms are doing now - to using generative AI to create their own content... they’re still extracting and benefiting from journalism."
"There need to be compensation systems set up because somebody's doing the work, whether you realize it or not, and these companies are just free-riding."
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