Just over one year after the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission (ACCC) released its Digital
Platform Inquiry – final
report1 (DPI),
Australia's media regulatory landscape is finally set for a
shake up, with reforms to address largely unregulated online media
platforms anticipated for late 2020.
Draft mandatory code of conduct due July 2020 – news
media and online platforms
After public consultation and despite pushback from Facebook and
Google, the ACCC is due to release a draft mandatory code of
conduct (Code) by the end of July 2020 to govern
commercial relationships between large digital platforms and news
media companies. This is just weeks after Google announced it
would launch a licensing program to pay publishers for high-quality
content for a 'new news experience'.
