Google sent the 100 million it had agreed to pay to Canadian media in exchange for an exemption from Online News Act. The sum was deposited to a journalism organization designed to distribute the funds.
Posted at 1:34 p.m.
Tara Deschamps
The Canadian Press
The US tech giant confirmed it transferred the money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, a federally incorporated non-profit organization run by independent publishers and broadcasters.
The collective said in mid-December that it was working to distribute the first tranche of funds by the end of January to media companies whose work was shared or reused by Google.
It estimated that eligible editors will receive approximately $13,798 per full-time equivalent journalist they employ based on a 2,000-hour year. Broadcasters will receive approximately $6,806 per eligible worker.
The collective did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Google agreed to pay the money in 2023 to exempt it from the Online News Actwhich requires the company and Meta to pay for their use of journalism. Meta preferred to avoid having to make payments by blocking access to Canadian news on its platforms.
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