Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said it’s “inevitable” that Google and other tech behemoths will have to eventually pay for using media content, responding to the Internet giant’s threat to disable its search engine in the country if it’s forced to pay local publishers for news.
Google said Friday that a proposed law, intended to compensate publishers for the value their stories generate for the company, is “unworkable”, opposing the requirement it pay media companies for displaying snippets of articles in search results.