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

Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
415.839.6885 ext. 6867

NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer.

_______________________________________________
Advocacy_Advisors mailing list
Advocacy_Advisors@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors