Back in October, Spain’s parliament passed a horribly ill-advised law at the behest of the Spanish news publishing lobby, the AEDE. Struggling to adapt to the information age in one of Europe’s more troubled economies, the AEDE thought it had hit on a brilliant new revenue source: They got a provision inserted in a new intellectual property law that, starting in January, will force news aggregation sites to pay newspapers for the privilege of linking to their stories.
Read more at http://www.cato.org/blog/nobody-expects-spanish-press-contrition
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