About U.S.A’s Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA):
- Australia and France have enacted similar laws, following which companies like Meta and Google have agreed to pay publishers in those countries.
- Australia had introduced a similar law last year, called the News Media Bargaining Code.
- In 2019, France became the first EU country to enact a directive on the publishing rights of media companies and news agencies, called “neighbouring rights”.
- Others like Canada and New Zealand are currently deliberating similar legislation.
- The draft legislation, known as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) of 2022, would allow publishers — who have long complained of dwindling revenues as social media platforms cornered a large chunk of online advertisements — greater powers to collectively bargain with companies like Facebook and Google for a larger share of ad revenue.
- JCPA was initially included in the annual national defence spending bill of the US which will have to be passed by the end of this year.
Source: Indian Express
Last updated on Sep, 2026
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