Govt doesn't support INS demand for greater share in ad revenue from Google for their news

I&B Ministry today clarified that it has not endorsed the demand by the Newspaper Society (INS) for sharing advertising revenue by techno companies like Google, Facebook and others.

The ministry of information and broadcasting today clarified that it has "not endorsed" the demand by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for sharing advertising revenue by techno companies like Google, Facebook, etc., to compensate Indian newspapers for using their content. I&B minister Prakash Javadekar today informed Parliament that govt earns GST as per applicable rates for the publishing industry and that there is no proposal for enactment of a law by the government in this regard. He was responding to a question of whether the government receives revenue from companies like Google for the Indian news published in print and electronic media per the global practices.