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Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'

This article is about how the Spanish government has passed a new copyright law that forces online content aggregators such as Google News, to pay a fee for the information that they portray from other news sources.

• Failure to pay up can lead to a fine of up to €600,000.
• The company says that it is “disappointed” with Spain’s new law. “We believe that services like Google News help publishers bring traffic to their sites.
• Google defends itself by claiming that it 10 billion views to newspapers’ websites every month.

I find this article interesting as it shows how big instittutions such as Google are using other organisations contenet to present on their own news feeds and that there is a fight back from these institutions which in turn have caused the governement to take action. 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/31/spain-newspaper-google-tax