The news filtered for dinner and Google confirmed within hours. The news aggregation service Google News will close its doors in Spain on Tuesday, December 16 . Furthermore, the Spanish media will no longer appear in service worldwide, making them invisible to readers of other Spanish-speaking countries.
This decision was somewhat expected after the adoption of so-called ‘canon AEDE’ . The new Spanish Intellectual Property Act or ‘Lasalle Law’ enter into force on January 1 and between your measurements (clause 32.2) includes the obligation to news aggregators to pay a fee to use copyrighted content.
This legislation has been passed after pressure AEDE , an association of large traditional publishers more linked to the printed press but that does not represent the entirety of, especially the more modest Spanish media. A AEDE belong Prisa, Editorial Unit, Vocento, the Godó group, Z Group, Prensa Ibérica and other local newspapers that publish as Serra, Grupo News, Joly Group, Harbinger Group or Promecal.
After the passage of the law, Google and threatened with the possible closure of Google News , and many came to believe that the technology company would go through the hoop and agree to a payment with the mainstream media or technology publishers and reach an agreement.
The reasons for Google
The head of Google News , Richard Gingras said in a post on the blog Google public policy that “as a result of a new Spanish law, will have to close”. Gringo clear that the new legislation requires that “each copper the Spanish publication services like Google News to show even the smallest fragment of its publications, like it or not.”
Gringras remember that the tool was “free to use” and, therefore, the editors could choose whether they wanted to or not his articles appeared in it. According to him many chose to be included as Google News “creates value leading people to their websites, helping in turn to generate advertising revenue.”
However, Google News does not make money because it does not display any advertising on the site and the nine focus does “sustainable” service, which would have caused the shutdown.
The other cases
Spain is not the first country to try to force Google to pay a fee for using other news. France, Germany and Belgium have already started that way, but the main difference is that in Spain the rate applied mandatorily, even though some media do not want to claim it. Thus, the media can not give up asking the tribute.
The pioneer was Belgium . After five years of lithiums in 2011 was banned Google using images and texts of Belgian newspapers in Google News . The return of newspapers serving occurred in late 2012.
In its neighbor France Google has reached an agreement with publishers last year. The signing of Mountain View agreed to pay 60 million euros for “fund to support the digital transition.”
The coming and going was like Germany . The country has a new law since 2013 by which publishers can forbid search engines and similar services using their articles and content beyond the headlines. The law recognized the possibility of seeking compensation for appearing in these services.
Given this rule VG Media, a consortium of around 200 German publishers (including the giant Axel Springer was) asked 11% of the benefits that the Internet giant generated by display its contents. Initially Google decided to show the headlines to avoid paying. Given the refusal, the group decided to give Google News 20 days ago.
Some, like Axel Springer , which publishes the most widely read newspaper in Europe, Bild , and have repented and have asked reappear. Due to the closure, traffic coming from Google search results on their sites had plunged 40% and traffic delivered by Google News had plummeted 80% in the last two weeks.
* Update: 11:11 a.m. – Press the Ministry of Education
“The Ministry continues its road route with the regulatory development of the so-called ‘Google tax’ “
” The reform of the Copyright Act provides a legal basis for negotiation between the parties -agregadores content and newspaper publishers, journalists and photographers –
The Ministry of Education believes that the announcement of Google to remove its service in Spain through Google News, responds to a business decision <. / p>
The Ministry of Education will soon begin the regulations implementing the Act and submitted to the public inquiry in which all interested parties may retransmit their contributions.
Note that despite the suspension of Google News service access to information on the Internet continues guaranteed, and can access it directly on the websites of the media or as a result of the indexing of the news search engines and other aggregators of news content.
The Ministry wishes to record once again that users or social networks are exempt from payment for use of these services or information content accessed through links. The Copyright Act of nothing hinders freedom of information, always respecting and protecting the intellectual property rights of authors. “
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