{"id":5980,"date":"2022-12-10T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:33:25","slug":"what-is-the-usas-journalism-competition-and-preservation-act-jcpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-usas-journalism-competition-and-preservation-act-jcpa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the U.S.A&#8217;s Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>U.S.A\u2019s Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA)<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia and France have enacted similar laws, following which companies like Meta and Google have agreed to pay publishers in those countries.\n<ul>\n<li>Australia had introduced a similar law last year, called the <strong>News Media Bargaining Code.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In 2019, France became the first EU country to enact a directive on the publishing rights of media companies and news agencies, called \u201c<strong>neighbouring rights\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Others like Canada and New Zealand are currently deliberating similar legislation.<\/li>\n<li>The draft legislation, known as the <strong>Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) of 2022<\/strong>, would allow publishers \u2014 who have long complained of dwindling revenues as social media platforms cornered a large chunk of online advertisements \u2014 greater powers to collectively bargain with companies like Facebook and Google for a larger share of ad revenue.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/news-media-bill-in-us-facebook-debate-8315253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draft JCPA of the USA would allow publishers to bargain with companies for a larger share of ad revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}