Tag: Google News

Google Canada Tells Senate Bill C-18 Would Create Unreasonable Financial Liability

Google Canada has told senators that it would be reasonable to reconsider whether it shares links to news sites if the government’s online news bill becomes law, but it is not promising to block them. Richard Gingras, the vice-president of the company’s news division, told a Senate committee Wednesday that Google has shared its concerns…


Google News Re-Opens in Spain After 8-Year Shutdown

BRUSSELS—Alphabet reopened Google News in Spain on Wednesday, eight years after it shut down the service because of a Spanish rule forcing the company and other news aggregators to pay publishers for using snippets of their news. Madrid last year transposed European Union copyright rules, revamped in 2020, into legislation, allowing media outlets to negotiate…