Project to be voted on is authored by deputy Jandira Feghali (PCdoB-RJ).| Photo: Pablo Valadares/Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies may vote, this Tuesday (9), on an urgent request for the bill that regulates the remuneration of journalistic content and the payment of copyrights on digital platforms. The two subjects are dealt with in the Fake News PL, which had the vote postponed last Tuesday (2), and continues without a set date for voting.

The strategy of “slicing” the project came after an agreement between the rapporteur Orlando Silva (PCdoB-SP) and party leaders, aiming to ease the strong resistance of the opposition and big techs – Google, Meta, YouTube – to voting on the proposal. Among the main negative points of the PL are the possibility of forcing platforms to be more proactive in taking down content, the delivery of the monopoly of truth to the State, the lack of openness of proposals to public debate, the lack of clarity of terms adopted and the hypothesis of chasing away some social networks in Brazil.

With the new agreement, the project to be voted on is PL 2370/19, authored by deputy Jandira Feghali (PCdoB-RJ), which promotes updating of the Copyright Law (Law No. 9610/98). The text establishes that platforms remunerate journalistic companies. It also imposes that the owner of the rights to the work may notify the provider extrajudicially (without going through judicial channels), demanding the removal of the content.

The rapporteur for the matter, deputy Elmar Nascimento (União Brasil-BA), confirmed to the website Power 360 that the request was included in the agenda for this Tuesday (9). If approved, the initiative does not need to go through committees and will be discussed directly in the plenary of the Chamber.