Day: July 29, 2023

Google to launch ‘enhanced news storytelling’ project with licensed content

But aggressive government intervention in Australia threatens Google’s voluntary news licensing strategy. Google’s history with news publishers is, to say the least, complicated. The company historically has resisted paying licensing fees for news, arguing that it was delivering considerable value to publishers in the form of traffic. But some publishers (e.g., Rupert Murdoch) have complained over […]