Google News missing closure. Spain will be from Tuesday 16 in the first country in the world that will stop operating the service of links to news that the technology giant offered for free. It is the response of the company called Google rate, including in copyright law that will take effect on January 1 and will force the company to compensate the publishers for each article that you add to your platform. This payment mechanism for the use of third party content has not materialized yet, as it was pending joint negotiations between representatives of the media and news aggregators like Google, but without the participation of American society the effect Compensation will be very limited.
The decision of Google, however, is not irrevocable, and I would be willing to continue trading “if the law does not include the right to the indispensability “. This, indeed, is the main sticking point. What does this mean? That the legislation includes the “inalienable right” of content publishers to remuneration of news aggregators, although this was minimal if the two parties so decide to. That is, they can not give it up, but so wish, to avoid being excluded from the aggregator. In fact no means willing to not charge the fee.
“Because Google News is a service that does not generate income, because we do not show advertising, this new approach is unsustainable” explains Richard Gingras, service manager, on his blog. For practical purposes, the measure does not affect the search engine Google, the flagship of the company, where users can still gathering information, but a little difficult finding news.
The Spanish Publishers Association (AEDE) said the measure “is not equivalent to the closure of a given their dominant market position service” and have a negative impact on citizens and Spanish companies. “Google controls in Spain almost all of the searches in the market and is the true gateway to Internet ‘, the editors said, expressing his willingness to negotiate.
Germany, yes the Spanish model
In this line the Culture Minister José Ignacio Wert, prompting the law department ruled, who noted that the measure was taken to “protect” the media “and charged that Google News anticipates closing before starting to negotiate the fee. Wert, contrary to the provisions of the law in Article 32.2, added further confusion by saying that publishers do not want to receive compensation “can negotiate with the aggregator in any conditions deemed appropriate.”
The president of the Federation of Spanish Press, Elsa González, claimed an agreement between Google and the AEDE to avoid closure. German publishers Merkel called on the government to tighten its copyright law to follow the Spanish model, which requires charge a fee, compared to the German legislation on which this option is voluntary.
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