Google News returns to Spain after legislation changes – Search Engine Land

Google News stopped serving in Spain in 2014 after local legislation required news publishers to charge Google to show headlines, snippets, or whole articles in the News service. Today, the company announced that the News service will reopen early next in Spain due to Royal Decree implementing the European Copyright Directive.

What is the European Union Copyright Directive? This legislation “allows third-party online news platforms to negotiate directly with content providers” instead of mandating they all charge news services like Google News collective fees, according to Reuters. The new law means that individual publications can choose whether or not they want to charge Google and other news aggregation services to include their stories, and, as such, these news services can choose whether or not to include them in their aggregation platforms.

Benefits to publishers. It’s very likely that many publishers took a traffic and therefore ad revenue hit when Google News and similar…

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