It seems to be happening. For long, search engines & even some social networks have been under pressure from news outfits for using news reports for free without any payments to the media outfits. Now, they seem to be coming around to the news outfits’ point of view. Facebook, for example, has agreed to pay mainstream news outfits in the UK millions of pounds to license their news reports for its upcoming FB News.
Facebook to pay UK media millions to licence news stories – The Guardian
Facebook is to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to licence their articles, as the social network faces the threat of a government crackdown over its dominance of online advertising.Most British newspaper groups have signed up to the programme, under which their articles…
Link: Facebook to pay UK media millions to licence news stories
via www.theguardian.com
