JAKARTA – Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook's parent company, announced that it believes a new Indonesian law does not require it to pay news publishers for content voluntarily posted on their platform.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo signed a law this week requiring digital platforms to pay media outlets that provide them with content. This law is expected to come into force within the next six months.
“After several rounds of consultations with governments, we understand that Meta will not be required to pay for news content that publishers voluntarily post on our platform,” said Rafael Frankel, Meta’s director of public policy for the South East Asia.
The law states that digital platforms and news publishers must enter into partnerships that could take the form of paid licenses, revenue sharing or data sharing, but there is still much uncertainty about how these new agreements will work. In practice.
Governments in various countries have long been concerned about what they see as an imbalance of power between digital platforms and publishers of news and other content.
Australia took the lead with the News Media Bargaining Code Act, which came into force in March 2021. Meta and Google have since signed deals with media publishers that pay them for click-through content and advertising revenue.
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