MARSEILLE: Around 30 European and North American media outlets on Wednesday joined a coalition launched by Britain’s BBC, Sky News and The Guardian, aiming to secure fair payment for news content from artificial intelligence giants.
New members of the SPUR Coalition include France’s CMA Media, Switzerland’s Ringier and Canadian groups including The Globe and Mail and CBC/Radio Canada.
“The world’s leading publishers are determined to open a new chapter in their relationship with technology platforms and public authorities,” CMA deputy chief Jean-Christophe Tortora told a gathering of global news publishers’ association WAN-IFRA in southern French city Marseille.
He called for “a ‘new deal’ based on fair value sharing, content protection and the defense of reliable and independent journalism.”
SPUR was co-founded by the BBC, Financial Times, Guardian Media Group, Sky News, Telegraph Media and Belgium’s Mediahuis, which operates in several European countries.
