Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, February 9th, and this is your F-T news briefing.

After a push by Australia, the EU is considering whether to make big tech pay for news.

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last year. Plus, SoftBank's Vision Fund had its best quarter since launching in 2017. We'll take a

look at which bets lifted the technology giant. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to

start your day. European lawmakers want big tech companies to pay for the journalism found on

their sites. They're echoing a move by Australian lawmakers who are set to pass a law that would do

just this. Now this kind of regulation helps publishers, but they're strong pushback from Silicon

Valley. For a little context, I spoke with the FT's Global Media Editor, Alex Barker.

A kind of consensual agreement on how much that news was worth, then they could end up in

binding arbitration, and the price would be set for Google, and they really don't like that idea.

In Europe, they've kind of taken that approach in Australia, found some elements of it interesting,

and they're saying, look, why don't we bring this into EU law? There's lots of laws working

through the system at the moment. Why don't we bring that in and try and strengthen the kind of

copyright rules that we'd already reformed to make sure that that imbalance between publishers

and tech groups is addressed properly? So Alex, are there any issues with the Australian model that

we're talking about here? Well, Google and Facebook have been very vocal about the issues they face

in Australia. Fundamentally, they say it's unworkable, and it tries to force the hand of platforms

in a commercial negotiation for content that they don't see as a commercial necessity. They don't

think it brings the value to their platforms that the publishers do, and what they see happening

in Australia is the construction of a legal framework that's basically taking their money

and distributing it to publishers. For that reason, I mean, Google have been very strong about

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