Canadian Regulator Moves Forward with Plan for Implementing Online News Act

The Canadian regulator responsible for implementing the country's online news law said it will start setting up a framework for negotiations between news organizations and Internet giants this autumn, with the aim of initiating mandatory bargaining by early 2025. Canada's Online News Act, part of a global trend to make tech firms like Alphabet's Google and Meta's Facebook pay for news, became law in June but has not yet come into effect.