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Google exempt from Online News Act for 5 years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC

Ottawa - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has granted Google a five-year exemption from the Online News Act, ordering it to pay $100 million to Canadian news outlets within 60 days. Google agreed last year to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million a year in order to be exempt from the law, which compels tech companies to enter into agreements with news publishers. Google has tasked the Canadian Journalism Collective with distributing the money to news outlets. T...

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