The subjects of regulation—if I were to put it that way—for this bill are the digital news intermediaries, or in other words, the digital platforms.
The legislative obligation to bargain with news businesses is on those intermediaries. The legislative regulatory obligation is on them, and then what the bill does is give greater clarity about what is the expected scope of that bargaining obligation in terms of the kinds of news businesses that a digital news intermediary would have to have agreements with in order to qualify for an exemption, as set out in clause 11.
Failing that, news businesses could invoke the mandatory bargaining framework in the latter part of the act, but the subject of regulation of this bill is the digital news intermediary. It is not news businesses.