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|Title=Impact of the New Article 32.2 of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act | |Title=Impact of the New Article 32.2 of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act | ||
+ | |Abstract=The Spanish Association of Publishers of Periodical Publications (Asociación Española de Editoriales de Publicaciones Periódicas) has commissioned NERA Economic Consulting to conduct an analysis assessing the impact of introducing new article 32.2 of the Spanish Copyright Act. Article 32.2 institutes a copyright fee to be paid by online news aggregators to publishers for linking their content within their aggregation services. Publishers cannot opt out of receiving this fee, and payments are to be made through a copyright collecting society. | ||
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+ | NERA’s analysis focuses on the article’s effects on competition, primarily for the news aggregator and publication sectors, as well as for consumers (i.e., readers of digital media) and advertisers. The implementation of this fee was promoted by a small group of publishers affiliated with the Association of Publishers of Spanish Newspapers (Asociación de Editores de Diarios Españoles), despite opposition from many industry players. | ||
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+ | The article’s main (theoretical) motivation is that aggregators are benefiting from the publishers’ efforts without remunerating them properly. This would be even more relevant since news aggregators represent competition for publishers, as they would be reducing the number of visits from those readers satisfied with the limited information in the links, thus reducing the publishers’ audience and, consequently, their advertising revenues. | ||
+ | |Plain Text Proposition=The publishers’ inability to refuse the payment was justified to prevent what occurred in countries including Germany and Belgium, where a similar fee was implemented. News aggregators in those countries chose to exclude publishers from their services in order to avoid the fee. Once publishers noticed that they were losing traffic, however, they asked to be linked back without demanding any payment in return. | ||
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+ | This suggests that, rather than damaging publishers, news aggregators are beneficial in that they drive web traffic to the publishers’ sites that otherwise would not have consulted those sources of information. This is clearly a justification against instituting the fee, particularly | ||
+ | since it would be easy for a publisher to prevent an aggregator from linking to its content. If this has not been the case, it is because aggregation services really represent a benefit for publishers. In fact, in recent years, many publishers have invested substantial technical and human resources to improve the positioning of their content within the aggregation services. | ||
+ | |Discipline=O34: Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital | ||
+ | |Data Type=Secondary data | ||
|Industry=Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing; | |Industry=Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing; | ||
|Country=Spain; | |Country=Spain; |
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Title: | Impact of the New Article 32.2 of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act |
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Abstract
The Spanish Association of Publishers of Periodical Publications (Asociación Española de Editoriales de Publicaciones Periódicas) has commissioned NERA Economic Consulting to conduct an analysis assessing the impact of introducing new article 32.2 of the Spanish Copyright Act. Article 32.2 institutes a copyright fee to be paid by online news aggregators to publishers for linking their content within their aggregation services. Publishers cannot opt out of receiving this fee, and payments are to be made through a copyright collecting society.
NERA’s analysis focuses on the article’s effects on competition, primarily for the news aggregator and publication sectors, as well as for consumers (i.e., readers of digital media) and advertisers. The implementation of this fee was promoted by a small group of publishers affiliated with the Association of Publishers of Spanish Newspapers (Asociación de Editores de Diarios Españoles), despite opposition from many industry players.
The article’s main (theoretical) motivation is that aggregators are benefiting from the publishers’ efforts without remunerating them properly. This would be even more relevant since news aggregators represent competition for publishers, as they would be reducing the number of visits from those readers satisfied with the limited information in the links, thus reducing the publishers’ audience and, consequently, their advertising revenues.
Main Results of the Study
The publishers’ inability to refuse the payment was justified to prevent what occurred in countries including Germany and Belgium, where a similar fee was implemented. News aggregators in those countries chose to exclude publishers from their services in order to avoid the fee. Once publishers noticed that they were losing traffic, however, they asked to be linked back without demanding any payment in return.
This suggests that, rather than damaging publishers, news aggregators are beneficial in that they drive web traffic to the publishers’ sites that otherwise would not have consulted those sources of information. This is clearly a justification against instituting the fee, particularly since it would be easy for a publisher to prevent an aggregator from linking to its content. If this has not been the case, it is because aggregation services really represent a benefit for publishers. In fact, in recent years, many publishers have invested substantial technical and human resources to improve the positioning of their content within the aggregation services.