Abstract
Falling advertising revenues of news media in the digital age have precipitated regulations that require payments by ‘Big Tech’ companies to news publishers for content. This paper reviews three approaches – the press publishers’ right in the European Union (‘EU’), Big Tech Regulation in Australia and Canada and the competition-enforcement proceedings in India. The experiences in the EU, Australia, and Canada reveal an incentive-incompatibility in mandating payments for news, owing to the asymmetric structural dependence of publishers on platforms – publishers cannot afford to lose platform traffic while platforms can drop news at little cost. Competition law, while subject to this incentive-incompatibility, is also unsuited to mandating payments since its remedies are corrective and ex post. Even a durable payment system would only solve part of the publishers’ problem, since platforms are no longer the only entities disrupting their revenue models.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.55496/NYUJ8166
Recommended Citation (provided in OSCOLA format)
Abhiram Nitin,
"News Publishers and Platforms: Mandated Payment and Its Limits"
(2026)
22(2)
Indian Journal of Law and Technology
10.55496/NYUJ8166
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/ijlt/vol22/iss2/4
