Namibia Lacks Laws to Compel Tech Giants to Pay Media

The Namibian Competition Commission has stated that the country does not have laws similar to South Africa’s, where tech giants have been ordered to compensate the media. This as South Africa’s Competition Commission recently ruled that Google must pay local media between R300 million and R500 million for using their content, as the platform benefits by an estimated R800 million to R900 million annually. Eric Mhunduru from NewsOnOne on One Africa TV reports.

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