http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/31/spain-newspaper-google-tax
The Spanish government has successfully passed a new copyright law which imposes fees for online content aggregators such as Google News, in an effort to protect its print media industry.
Failure to pay up can lead to a fine of up to €600,000.
Google defends itself by claiming that it 10 billion views to newspapers’ websites every month.
A similar law passed in Germany saw Google removing the affected newspapers from Google news altogether – before the publishers eventually came back and asked to be relisted after seeing their traffic plummet, a step they said they had to take because of the “overwhelming market power of Google”.
I think that this is a great way to save journalism in certain countries however it may be easy for someone to copy all of google's news stories and post them somewhere else in which people may be able to evade the tax
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