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Google has committed to paying $100 million per year to Canadian media for the use of their content on its platforms. (Archive photo)

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The Canadian Press

Posted at 2:36 p.m. EST

Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay to Canadian media in exchange for an exemption from the online news law.

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 would work to distribute the first tranche of these funds by the end of January to media companies whose work was shared or reused by Google.

He said he estimates that eligible editors will receive approximately $13,798 per full-time equivalent journalist they employ over 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 this amount in 2023 to be exempt from the online news law, which requires it and Meta to pay for their use of Canadian journalistic content. Meta preferred to avoid having to make payments by blocking access to Canadian news on its platforms.

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