GOOGLE URGED TO COMPENSATE NEWSPAPERS FOR CONTENT IN INDIA

NEW DELHI: The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has written to Google to “properly share advertising revenues” for content published by newspapers, a move that comes following a deal struck by Google in Australia with Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp to do just this.

President of INS, L Adimoolam, said in a letter to Google India’s country manager Sanjay Gupta that Google should “pay for news generated by newspapers which employ thousands of journalists on the ground at considerable expense”, the body said in a statement on Thursday, adding that it is in discussions with the tech giant.