After absent eight years, Google News has returned to Spain on Wednesday. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has closed the previous service because of the Spanish rules where the news aggregator was told to pay for the publisher because it used their news footage. Spain changed the European Union copyright rules, which was amended in 2020, to the law last year. This development allows media outlets to negotiate directly with Google’s technology giant.
Because this is more profitable for the company, it seems to have encouraged last year’s announcement that Google News will be reopened in this country in a year.
In a blogpost, Fuencisla Clemarres, Google’s vice president to Iberia, said, “Today, on the 20th anniversary of Google News global, and after being absent for almost eight years, Google News returned to Spain.”
The company also plans to launch Google News Showcase as soon as possible in Spain, he said. Showcase is a company vehicle to pay news publishers.
This is thanks to an updated copyright law that allows Spanish media outlets – large and small – to make their own decisions about how their content can be found and how they want to monetize the content,” Clembers added.
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