Whether large platforms should have to bargain with news organizations over payment, access, and use of journalism content.
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“Eligible news organizations should get a limited shield from antitrust lawsuits when they bargain together, arbitrate together, or jointly deny platform access to covered content through this process, while ordinary antitrust, copyright, and trademark law should still apply outside that shield.”
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“Eligible news organizations should be able to form a group to bargain with a covered platform over payment and access to their content, after publicly inviting eligible outlets to join for 60 days and giving each member one vote.”
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“Publisher payments from arbitration should be divided partly using data on past platform payments and spending on journalists who work at least 20 hours a week, and news organizations receiving money should report each year to the FTC how much supported that journalist work.”
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“The bargaining system should apply only to very large online platforms, and only news organizations that produce original journalism for a mostly U.S. audience, disclose ownership, meet size and business limits, and avoid ties to foreign powers or terrorist groups should be able to use it.”
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“If a publisher-only bargaining group and a covered platform cannot agree after at least 180 days, the publisher group should be able to start arbitration where each side submits a data-backed offer, arbitrators pick one full offer, payment awards last at least five years, and federal courts can enforce or review the result.”
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“Covered platforms and news bargaining groups should have to negotiate seriously, and either side should be able to sue if the other refuses to meet, delays without reason, sends someone without real authority, makes only one take-it-or-leave-it offer, or rejects offers without explanation.”
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“News organizations in a bargaining group should be able to choose together to block a covered platform from accessing content they have the right to control during the bargaining or arbitration process.”
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“Bargaining and arbitration should cover payment and access to news content, but should not decide how platforms rank, promote, hide, label, filter, or curate content, while platforms should not punish news organizations for joining the process.”
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“News bargaining groups should not exclude eligible outlets because they are small or because of their viewpoint, platforms should not punish outlets for joining bargaining or arbitration, and parties should be able to sue over discrimination or retaliation claims.”
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“GAO should study how the bargaining system affects local news, the open internet, competition, and journalism jobs before most of the system ends after six years, while some antitrust protection can continue for covered agreements and arbitration decisions from the active period.”
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“Parties should have to send platform-news bargaining agreements and arbitration decisions to the FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division within 60 days, and the FTC should post those records and yearly funding reports online for the public.”
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“If a court strikes down one part of the platform-news bargaining system, the other parts should continue operating when legally possible.”
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