Google’s decision to close Google News for Spain due to intellectual property law means that the content of Spanish publications disappear from their services worldwide.
Google met this week his promise to close the Google News service in Spain before it enters into force intellectual property law that would force the publications Spanish receive a payment for the content included in the platform, although the media are willing to offer it for free.
The Spanish page Google News, usually packed aggregate media content, vanished and instead a message indicating that Google “regrets” to inform the close of the service, and that the publication of Spanish publishers no longer appear in more than 70 international editions of Google News.
Spanish law comes into force on January 1, and Google said that it was untenable to maintain service and pay publishers for his popular news aggregator does not generate revenue.
The Association of Spanish Newspaper Publishers ( AEDE ) argued for the “Google tax”.
Customers using the search engine Google in Spain and elsewhere in the world can find items directly from the Spanish publications, because the law applies only to aggregators and not to individuals to make their own pursuits outside Google News.
But losing access to Google News may make it harder to people know what happens in Spain because they have to know where to look rather than the main stories come to them. Users in Latin America will not see these news via Google News. They also disappear English versions of Spanish newspapers as the prominent El País.
The law does not specify how much you would pay Google to news sources, but the Association of Spanish Newspaper Publishers ( AEDE ) said the Spanish law is much stricter than similar laws in other countries because it requires payments “to reproduce even the smallest content extracts”.
Google Position
Richard Gingras, director of Google News, said the decision to close the service in Spain was taken “with real regret.”
Other Google spokesman declined to comment on how soon Spanish news content block on every page of Google News.
Google News has irritated the media and other news sources who complain that service violates the intellectual property rights to presenting headlines and news collected from other sites.
Google argues that obeys all laws of intellectual property and that also focuses more users to sites posing in her news service. The company also allows sources prevent certain material to be included in Google News, an option that few sites chosen because the service Google is a major source of traffic to sell ads.
After Germany revised its intellectual property laws so allowed but not obliged to pay royalties Google News, Google requested that the media give consent to summarize its contents, and most did.
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