Search engines send readers to news sites and show a headline and a short on the way.
argue that the is often enough, so the reader never arrives.
Platforms reply that they deliver that publishers would otherwise not have.
Both statements are partly true and neither settles the money question.
Several countries have passed laws requiring platforms to pay for news s.
The first version, in one European country, failed within months.
The platform simply stopped showing s, and to publishers fell sharply.
asked for the s back, which weakened their position considerably.
Later laws avoided that outcome by making the payment unavoidable.
A platform above a certain size must , and an sets the price if talks fail.
Money now flows, and the of it has become the argument.
Most of it reaches the largest publishers, who needed it least.
Schemes that tie payment to the number of employed journalists reach the that are actually thin.