The “Ancillary Copyright Law” had shut down the Spanish
version of Google News effective from December 16, 2014. The shutdown is its
response to the changes in Spanish intellectual property law that would impose
compulsory fees for the use of snippets of text to link to news articles by
online news aggregators that provide a special service.
Spain’s law is similar to Germany’s implementation of the
law in 2013. Germany’s “ancillary copyright law” has no heritage in copyright
law. It had also been a manifest failure as publications willingly forfeited
their right to payment from Google because they realised the traffic loss they
would got when they’re not indexed in Google.
Meanwhile, Spain does not allow media publications in Spain
to forfeit their payment from Google.
This prompted Google News to stop its
Spanish services.
Many analysts said that it is difficult to see what type of
progress will it give for the Spanish press and Spanish-speaking internet users
worldwide.
Meanwhile, many speculate that Yahoo News will also arrange
for an exodus from the country.
Analysts said that the ancillary copyright laws only follow
part of a broader trend of heavy regulation used by European countries against
US tech companies. They said that authorities are concerned about US tech companies
using information gathered from Europeans without paying their fair share of
taxes.
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