New laws to make tech companies pay for news will help, but there are 4 key problems

The government has finally tabled its News Bargaining Incentive legislation to make big tech companies pay for the Australian journalism they use on their platforms. The government developed these laws to fix a problem with the original News Media Bargaining Code introduced under the Morrison government. While the code generated between $200 million and $250 million a year through deals struck with Meta and Google, it allowed them to stop making deals with news companies by not carrying news…