mrbn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 9 months agoBill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employeewww.michaelgeist.caexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareVictor Villas@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 months ago Bill C-18 is remarkably bad legislation. Figuring out this was the inevitable outcome of the legislation wasn’t 4D chess. I don’t follow. The bill worked in a sense, that it motivated a payout deal. people were saying this right from the beginning: social media won’t pay for links it doesn’t need Here we are, Google is paying $100MM for them, no? The difference is that they’re doing lump sum instead?
I don’t follow. The bill worked in a sense, that it motivated a payout deal.
Here we are, Google is paying $100MM for them, no? The difference is that they’re doing lump sum instead?