California lawmakers are delaying consideration of a bill to make Big Tech platforms pay for news content, following soon after the Golden State’s representatives in Congress killed related federal legislation.
State Democratic lawmakers announced Friday that Assembly Bill 886, or the California Journalism Preservation Act, will be considered sometime next year.
“My greatest concern is that we enact legislation that is fair, and that the benefits in this bill flow specifically to support local journalists and in turn, all Californians,” Mr. Umberg said in a statement. “My priority is making sure this bill does exactly, and only, what it intends: to support our free press and the democracy sustained by it, to make sure publications get paid what they are owed, and to hold our nation’s largest and wealthiest tech companies accountable for repurposing content that’s not theirs,” Ms. Wicks said in a statement.
Sen. Alex Padilla, California Democrat, said at a Judiciary Committee meeting in June that he plans to block the bill’s passage in the Senate. Meta made identical threats to block news in Australia in 2021 over similar legislation, but the tech company reached an agreement with the government to end the planned blockade of digital news.
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