[Advocacy Advisors] Proposed law in Spain

[Mathias Schindler]

2014-05-14 0:55 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder at wikimedia.org>:

> There is a proposed copyright amendment in Spain that a reporter just
> flagged to us and which may be of interest to this group.[1] The proposed
> law would empower IP collection societies to collect compensation on behalf
> of authors from "electronic service providers that aggregate content" when
> they re-use "non-significant fragments of content" from other sites. The law
> does not define "electronic service providers that aggregate content" for
> the purpose of this provision.[2]

This proposal follows the concept of the Leistungsschutzrecht für
Presseverleger (Ancillary copyright for press publishers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers