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        <title><![CDATA[Google says Australia’s paid news proposal puts free services ‘at risk’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google says an Australian proposal to make tech giants pay news publishers for their content would put its free services in danger there.</p><p>The Silicon Valley titan lashed out at the proposed &#8220;News Media Bargaining Code&#8221; in a Monday <strong>open letter</strong>, saying it could give large media businesses an &#8220;unfair advantage&#8221; in Google&#8217;s signature search engine and its YouTube video platform.</p><p>&#8220;The law is set up to give big media companies special treatment and to encourage them to make enormous and unreasonable demands that would put our free services at risk,&#8221; Mel Silva, a Google Australia managing director, wrote in the letter.</p><p>But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said Google&#8217;s letter contains &#8220;misinformation&#8221; about its proposal, which is still in a public comment phase. Google won&#8217;t have to give news companies additional user data or charge people for its free services &#8220;unless it chooses to do so,&#8221; officials said.</p><p>The law &#8220;will address a significant bargaining power imbalance between Australian news media businesses and Google and Facebook,&#8221; the commission said in a <strong>statement</strong>.</p><p>The Australian panel released the draft measure last month that would let news companies negotiate payments from Google and Facebook for the use of their content.</p><p>Google suggested that the law would hand publishers information that would help them &#8220;artificially inflate&#8221; their rankings in search results and on YouTube. The company also criticized a provision requiring tech firms to tell news businesses &#8220;how they can gain access&#8221; to certain user data.</p><p>&#8220;There’s no way of knowing if any data handed over would be protected, or how it might be used by news media businesses,&#8221; Silva wrote.</p><p>Google has long resisted demands to pay publishers for stories that it uses on its Google News and Google Discover services. The company said in Monday&#8217;s letter that it sends Australian outlets &#8220;billions of free clicks every year,&#8221; and it <strong>announced deals in June</strong> to pay media groups in Australia, Germany and Brazil for their content.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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