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> The entire point of art. 11 is to transfer money from Google News (and other aggregators, like Facebook) to publishers.

The latest version of Google News has already solved this: it only shows the title and the image, not a single sentence from the article itself, – which was the main concern in Spain and Germany when the relevant laws were introduced.

Facebook and Twitter shouldn't face any issues as well, because they only display the value of the og:description meta tag, set by the publishers themselves.



Sadly I still can't access Google News (in the normal way) from Spain though. The notice that it's closed due to the law is still there.


This is what you get if you try to access Google News from Spain, for those curious.

https://support.google.com/news/answer/6140047?hl=es


Only the URL is not covered under art. 11, everything else is.


If a publisher implements the Open Graph protocol[1], it explicitly makes the meta data of the article available to others.

[1] http://ogp.me/




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