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After the Spanish parliament approved some amendments in the Intellectual Property Law which will come in effect on January 1 2015, Google accordingly announced that it would shut down its news department on December 16 2014 in the country, ahead of the new tax laws.

In a decision that will reverberate around the globe, Google announced Thursday it will close Google News in Spain and block reports from Spanish publishers from more than 70 Google News international editions due to a new Spanish law requiring aggregators to pay to link content.

The vast majority of Brazil’s newspapers have opted out of Google News, saying that the service is bad for business.