Hi all, 

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]

The language that is currently proposed does not allow authors to waive their right to compensation. Local scholars argue that this provision will allow the IP collection societies to collect compensation even for authors who chose to CC license their content.[3]

Best, 

Yana 

[1] http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/27/spain-google-tax-threatens-news-aggregators-sinde-law/

[2] http://derechoynormas.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/derecho-por-agregacion-de-contenidos-en.html 

[3] http://www.uoc.edu/portal/es/sala-de-premsa/actualitat/noticies/2014/noticia_051/ley_propiedad_intelectual.html 

Yana Welinder