A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers reintroduced a bill to allow smaller news publishers to collectively negotiate content deals with online platforms, an effort to give the local news industry more leverage in dealing with big tech.The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act will give the publishers a temporary, 48-month safe harbor from antitrust laws.
A similar piece of legislation was introduced in 2019, but failed to advance.Supporters of the legislation have pointed to the power of Google and Facebook in making the case that local news publishers need a “level playing field” in content deals.This time, House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) said in a recent appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources
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