Digital news consumption and copyright intervention: evidence from Spain before and after the 2015 “link tax”

We analyze patterns of digital news consumption before and after a “link tax” was introduced in Spain. This new legislation imposed a copyright fee for showing snippets of content created by newspapers and resulted in the shutdown of Google News Spain. The Spanish copyright law is a precedent to the...

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Main Authors: Majo-Vazquez, S, Cardenal, AS, Gonzalez-Bailon, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017