British Broadcasting Corporation filed a complaint with UK antitrust regulators, complaining that aggregators such as Apple News and Google News would minimize credits for featured stories.
Apple Insider reports that the BBC is asking UK competition and sales agencies to require Apple and Google to more prominently credit news sources. Additionally, while CMA decisions apply in theory only to UK publications, changes made by aggregators will likely affect other publishers as well.
“When the audience derives value from our content and services, and attributes that value to the gatekeeper instead of the BBC, it undermines the BBC’s perceived value,” the broadcaster wrote in the complaint.
That perceived value may be particularly important to the BBC. Because the majority of that funding is derived from license fees paid by UK households, it is important that broadcasters work become visible and evaluated to maintain fee support.
Apple recently paused its AI News summary after complaints of inaccuracy from the BBC and other publishers.