The industry association, the Publisher Support Services (PSS, formerly the PDMSA) has declared its intention to challenge Google and Meta (Facebook) to be compensated for their content used on these platforms.
Explains Hoosain Karjieker, CEO of Mail & Guardian Media and chairperson of the PSS: “Globally, platforms like Google and Meta have been using publishers’ content at no cost to grow their market dominance.
“Our objective is to get them to compensate us fairly and equitably for our journalistic efforts, hence we are making submissions on their behaviour in the local market to the Competition Commission’s (the Commission) market inquiry into online platforms in South Africa.”
The Commission launched its market inquiry into online platforms operating in South Africa in May this year, focusing on online intermediation services. This includes…