Google News Spain to be shut down: what does it mean?Google News will withdraw from Spain before a new law that forces aggregators to pay news publishers comes into effect in the new year. A tech lawyer answers the big questions
http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2014/dec/12/google-news-spain-tax-withdraws
In a move that has surprised no one, Google News has announced it will withdraw from Spain and remove Spanish media from its service, after the government passed a copyright law forcing aggregators to pay news publishers for their stories.
The law, dubbed “Google tax”, is set to be introduced in the new year but the head of Google News, Richard Gingras, has revealed in a blogpost that the search engine will not be signing up.
Gingras wrote: “As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site), this new approach is simply not sustainable.” The Spanish service is set to shut on 16 December
Google news want to remove themselves from Spain after they paid news publishers for their stories. For Google this would be the right decision, however for Spain as a whole it wouldn't be fair as they don't get loose out on the use of the internet.
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