Google reopened its information aggregator in Spain on Wednesday practically 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 permitted a 2019 EU copyright regulation that enables third-party on-line information platforms to barter straight with content material suppliers concerning charges.
This means Google not has to pay a charge to Spain’s whole media business and may 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 vice chairman 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 stated the corporate plans to work with editors to succeed in agreements” to launch in Spain “as quickly as attainable” its platform for paying news publishers, Google News Showcase.
Google News closed in Spain in December 2014 after legislation passed requiring web platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay publishers to reproduce content from other websites, including links to their articles that describe a story’s content.
Google has long argued that its news site drives readers to newspapers and magazine websites and thus helps them generate advertising revenue and find new subscribers.
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