A new copyright law in Spain forces it Google to close its service Google News. In a post at blog of Google in Europe today, the company says that the closure of their service is "really sad" with the new law that will come into force in January. 
The company will start with the removal access of Spanish publishers from December 16, before the entire service in that country is shut down.
New Spanish legislation gives publishers using services like Google News the right to even charge for news clippings used by the news aggregator. The law obliges all publishers to charge the content even those who don't want money.
Google, on the other hand, should not display advertisements or monetize in any way from said service, thereby ceasing to operate as it will no longer be viable.
Perhaps the worst part of this fact is that Google will remove Spanish publishers from global results as part of the country's shutdown and blockade.
The new Spanish law was named "Google Tax" or a Google tax, and was voted as part of the effort to distribute 80.000.000 € from local media. Unfortunately, when Google withdraws News, things will get worse for publishers.
