Google reopened its information aggregator in Spain on Wednesday almost eight years after it closed the service due to a Spanish regulation which imposed charges on the corporate for utilizing publishers’ content material.

The US tech big introduced in November 2021 that Google News would return to Spain, with out setting a date, after Madrid accepted a 2019 EU copyright regulation that permits third-party on-line information platforms to barter immediately with content material suppliers relating to charges.

This means Google not has to pay a charge to Spain’s total media business and might as an alternative negotiate with particular person publishers.

“Today, on the global 20th anniversary of Google News, and after an almost eight-year hiatus, Google News is returning to Spain,” Google’s vp for Spain and Portugal, Fuencisla Clemares, wrote in a blogpost.

“This is thanks to an updated copyright law that allows Spanish media outlets, big and small, to make their own decisions about how their content can be discovered and monetised,” she added.

Clemares additionally mentioned the corporate plans to work with editors to succeed in agreements” to launch in Spain “as quickly as doable” its platform for paying information publishers, Google News Showcase.

Google News closed in Spain in December 2014 after laws handed requiring internet platforms equivalent to Google and Facebook to pay publishers to breed content material from different web sites, together with hyperlinks to their articles that describe a narrative’s content material.

Google has lengthy argued that its information web site drives readers to newspapers and journal web sites and thus helps them generate promoting income and discover new subscribers.