Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association

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The Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association (Spanish: Asociación de Editores de Diarios Españoles; AEDE) was a trade association for Spanish newspaper publishers based in Madrid, Spain.

The AEDE has campaigned against news aggregators' use of newspaper website content without payment to publishers, and successfully lobbied for Spanish copyright law to be amended[1] in 2014 to require Spanish publishers to charge news aggregators for using Spanish news material, regardless of whether individual publishers might wish to waive those charges.[2][3] In response, Google announced that they would be shutting down the Spanish version of their Google News service.[4]

The AEDE reacted by lobbying the Spanish government to force Google to keep it running.[5][6]

Google shut down its Spanish edition of Google News on 16 December 2014.[7] It also announced that it had removed Spanish publishers from Google News.[8]

In 2018, the agency has succeeded to Asociación de Medios de Información (AMI).[9]

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  1. ^ "Ley 21/2014, de 4 de noviembre, por la que se modifica el texto refundido de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, aprobado por Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996, de 12 de abril, y la Ley 1/2000, de 7 de enero, de Enjuiciamiento Civil" (PDF). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. November 2014.
  2. ^ Vauhini Vara (13 December 2014). "Spain Versus the Internet". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ David Roman (15 December 2014). "Spain's Publishers Brace for Google News Shutdown". Wall Street Journal.
  4. ^ Dominic Rushe (11 December 2014). "Google News Spain to close in response to story links 'tax'". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Glyn Moody (12 Dec 2014). "Surprise: Spanish Newspapers Beg Government And EU To Stop Google News Shutting Down". Techdirt.
  6. ^ Kelly Fiveash (14 Dec 2014). "Hold the front page: Spain's anti-Google lobbyists lobby for Google News return". The Register.
  7. ^ Matthew Bennett (16 December 2014). "Google News In Spain Taken Offline After Google Fulfills Promise In Response To AEDE Copyright Law". The Spain Report. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Google Noticias en España". Google. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  9. ^ "La Agencia EFE se incorpora a la Asociación de Medios de Información". DigiMedios (in Spanish). 25 February 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

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