Spain's 'Google tax'

Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by Udo on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:05PM (#8091162)

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.

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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by visarga on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:09PM (#8091179)

> arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks

This will do wonders for the SEO of these newspapers, not to mention their presence at all in the discourse.

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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by ekianjo on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:31PM (#8091611)

> 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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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by spindritf on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:11PM (#8091184)

Now I want to be true. Hopefully, it will have an inoculating effect.

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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by opendais on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:31PM (#8091612)

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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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by Buge on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:58PM (#8091696)

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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