Google News to shut down in Spain following new copyright law

A new copyright law in Spain is forcing Google to close the doors on its news product. In a post on the Google Europe blog today, the company wrote that it’s closing the service with “real sadness” ahead of the new law going into effect this January. It’ll start by removing Spanish publishers on 16 December, before closing down the whole product in that country. The new Spanish law requires publications to charge services like Google News for even showing snippets from news, even if they don’t want to charge them money. Google doesn’t show ads or make any money off…
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