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Spain, Articulo 32.2 Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (AEDE levy)

Ley 21/2014, de 4 de noviembre, por la que se modifica el texto refundido de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, BOE num. 268, 5 Nov. 2014

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Repealed: no longer in force, effective 1 January 2015.

A press publishers' right rule binding public and private bodies.

What this law does

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This Spanish member-state law (not an EU instrument) introduced a mandatory, non-waivable remuneration right for press publishers against online content aggregators, deliberately designed so that publishers could not grant free licences as German publishers had done, with fees collected collectively through the SGAE successor body.

Google responded by shutting down Google News in Spain in December 2014, causing Spanish publishers to lose substantial referral traffic; the provision was repealed and replaced by Spain's transposition of Digital Single Market (DSM) Art. 15 via Real Decreto-ley 24/2021, after which Google News relaunched in Spain in November 2021.

What it reaches

Instrument type

statute

Categories

Publisher right

When LexLint raises it

  • aggregates_content

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