The Spanish Congress’ Commission of Culture approved [1] the so called AEDE Tax (for the Spanish name of the Association of Editors of Spanish Newspapers), also known as Google Tax as part of the draft bill of the Law of Intellectual Property.
GurusBlog explains [2] what is this tax about:
A tax by which an inalienable right is created so every journalistic update website automatically generates a collection right on any other website that links to it. An organ like a SGAE (for the Spanish name of General Society of Authors and Publishers) will be in charge of the collection and the distribution among its associates.
On Xataca they note [3]:
Unlike Germany [4], the media group that is lobbying for this legislation -AEDE- gets the “inalienability” to be added so as to avoid to be self-evident [5]: if Google has to pay a medium for linking from Google News, it would suffice to take it out, and after realizing the sudden loss of traffic, that medium might request to get back without any fee.
After some tweets, some netizens are upset:
“@gallir [6]: .@edans [7] está más cabreado que yo con el #canonAEDE [8] pic.twitter.com/0nc8Q5Ru4L [9]” #FAV [10] überfav, lamentablemente.
— Afrika Winslet (@AfrikaWinslet) July 22, 2014 [11]
Angrier than me with the AEDE tax. [8]Überfav, unfortunately.
@Amandysha [12] @gallir [6] el #CanonAEDE [13] es un absurdo que contraviene la naturaleza de Internet !ENLAZAR NO ES UN DELITO! pic.twitter.com/afT3bFjvbq [14]
— Hiddekel Morrison (@IngMorrison) July 22, 2014 [15]
This AEDE tax is ridiculous and it goes against the nature of Internet itself! LINKING IS NOT A CRIME!
Other users are promoting not linking to the media:
Plugin de WordPress para bloquear las URL que enlazan a #AEDE [16] y CEDRO http://t.co/epOV1dDrTe [17] @CanonAEDE_NO [18] @CanonAEDE [19] pic.twitter.com/XS8GY4x0Ld [20]
— Ialza (@Ialza) July 22, 2014 [21]
WordPress plugn to block all URLs than link to AEDE y the Spanish Center of Republishing Rights.