In a boost to the proposed Digital India Act, Australian MP Paul Fletcher on July 18 said that India would have an edge in “bargaining dynamics” with tech giants such as Google and Facebook if a legislation governing revenue-sharing between social media platforms and news publishers is brought in place.
Mr. Fletcher, a former Minister for Communications in Australia, was speaking at a virtual event held by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), an industry association of media companies in India. The Hindu is a DNPA member.
Mr. Fletcher’s comments come at a time when the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is working on a draft Digital India Bill, which, if passed, will take over the handling of digital antitrust affairs from the Information Technology Act, 2000.
