Wait, who wins here?
Google would presumably stop returning results for Spanish content to avoiding getting charged, resulting in dropped traffic, and less ad dollars.
Spain's 'Google tax'
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#32From what I understand, Twitter only posts content from the linked site (expanded tweets) if the site is a partner or (twitter cards) if the site actively includes code for Twitter. Anything you can squeeze into 140 characters is surely protected as a (very) limited quote. Which makes me question this article. Did they really pass a law requiring payment for quoting small parts of an article? Seems unlikely. Paying f…
On a press note ( http://www.mecd.gob.es/prensa-mecd/actualidad/2014/07/201407... ): Google+, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks won't be subject to this tax.
Too bad. I hope those will stop linking to Spanish news outlets (especially those who pushed for this) regardless. A few days of that and the law is history.
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#33Wait, who wins here? Google would presumably stop returning results for Spanish content to avoiding getting charged, resulting in dropped traffic, and less ad dollars.
But then Google would be a less valuable search engine. I guess they would sue and eat it in the meantime.
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#34First taxing the sun, now this. EEUU, please invade us. It's ridiculous how fucking idiotic our politicians can be and people still keep voting them. EDIT: Typo.
First taxing the sun
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#35Wait, who wins here? Google would presumably stop returning results for Spanish content to avoiding getting charged, resulting in dropped traffic, and less ad dollars.
But then Google would be a less valuable search engine. I guess they would sue and eat it in the meantime.
Hardly less valuable. It's not like news search is the killer function of Google's services.
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#36From what I understand, Twitter only posts content from the linked site (expanded tweets) if the site is a partner or (twitter cards) if the site actively includes code for Twitter. Anything you can squeeze into 140 characters is surely protected as a (very) limited quote. Which makes me question this article. Did they really pass a law requiring payment for quoting small parts of an article? Seems unlikely. Paying f…
The Heise article says so - arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks. A link is enough. The fine can be up to € 300k or six years in prison. The Spanish education minister hails this as a pioneering effort designed to be followed up by the EU at large.
> arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks.
Is this law retroactive? What do you do with the already existing links on the Spanish web and Spanish wikipedia ? It's not just a Google tax, it's a Hypertext tax.
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#37From what I understand, Twitter only posts content from the linked site (expanded tweets) if the site is a partner or (twitter cards) if the site actively includes code for Twitter. Anything you can squeeze into 140 characters is surely protected as a (very) limited quote. Which makes me question this article. Did they really pass a law requiring payment for quoting small parts of an article? Seems unlikely. Paying f…
The Heise article says so - arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks. A link is enough. The fine can be up to € 300k or six years in prison. The Spanish education minister hails this as a pioneering effort designed to be followed up by the EU at large.
I suspect it'd be easier to just move your global, internet operation out of Spain completely with no legal ties for them to sue you with.
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#38How is this a Google Tax? Websites indexed by Google give permission in their robots.txt file (or lack thereof)
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#39From what I understand, Twitter only posts content from the linked site (expanded tweets) if the site is a partner or (twitter cards) if the site actively includes code for Twitter. Anything you can squeeze into 140 characters is surely protected as a (very) limited quote. Which makes me question this article. Did they really pass a law requiring payment for quoting small parts of an article? Seems unlikely. Paying f…
The Heise article says so - arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks. A link is enough. The fine can be up to € 300k or six years in prison. The Spanish education minister hails this as a pioneering effort designed to be followed up by the EU at large.
A link isn't a quote though. It's an address. It's metadata. It's not in the content of the article.
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#40i seriously don't get why the newspapers don't want people linking to them. what am I missing?
This is mainly done to prevent linking and hosting pirated material; think movies and music. Newspapers and blogs are just collateral damage.