Reports and Analysis
- CCIA Backgrounder, The Ancillary Copyright for News Publishers: Why It’s Unjustified and Harmful (May 2016)
- CCIA White Paper, Understanding ‘Ancillary Copyright’ in the Global Intellectual Property Environment (February 2015)
- Comisión Nacional de Los Mercados y La Competencia, Proposal Relating to the Modification of Article 32.2 of the Draft Act Modifying the Redrafted Text of the Intellectual Property Act, (May 2014)
- CCIA Backgrounder, Spanish IP Proposal Targets U.S. Internet Firms
- Spanish Article 32-2 Literal Translation
Academic Literature
- Raquel Xalabarder, The Remunerated Statutory Limitation for News Aggregation and Search Engines Proposed by the Spanish Government – Its Compliance with International and EU Law, IN3 Working Paper Series (September 2014)
- Alexander Peukert, An EU related right for press publishers concerning digital uses: A legal analysis, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main no 22/2016 (March 2017)
Agency Filings and Correspondence
- CCIA 2015 Special 301 Comments (February 2015)
- CCIA Formal Complaint to EU Regarding Spanish Action on Ancillary Copyright (October 2014)
- CCIA 2013 Special 301 Comments (February 2013)
- CCIA 2010 Special 301 Comments (February 2010)
Press Reports and Blogs
- EU Defends Proposals Granting Publishers New Rights, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 7, 2016
- EU Lawmakers Are Still Considering This Failed Copyright Idea, Fortune, Mar. 24, 2016
- A ‘Legal’ Snippet in Germany Could Mean… Seven Words, Maximum, Disruptive Competition Project, Oct. 27, 2015
- Spain’s “Google tax” has been a disaster for publishers, new study shows, Ars Technica UK, July 31, 2015
- Study Of Spain’s ‘Google Tax’ On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done, TechDirt, July 29, 2015
- Trade Implications of Google News Exiting Spain Over Ancillary Right, Disruptive Competition Project, Dec. 12, 2014
- Explaining the Law Behind the Google News Shutdown in Spain, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 11, 2014
- Google Announces End of News in Spain, IPKat, Dec. 11, 2014
- Spanish News to Vanish From Google News Globally, New York Times, Dec. 11, 2014
- Google News Is Shutting Down in Spain – A Bad Day For Citizens, Online Innovation and Publishers Themselves, Disruptive Competition Project, Dec. 11, 2014
- Strict New Copyright Law Forces End Of Google News In Spain, Search Engine Land, Dec. 10, 2014
- The Worst Mercantilist Policies of 2014, p. 8, ITIF, Dec. 8, 2014
- Copyright Protection for Quotations? An Explainer on Ancillary Rights in Europe, Disruptive Competition Project, Nov. 21, 2014
- Oettinger Floats Proposal for EU-wide ‘Google-tax’, EurActiv, Oct. 29, 2014
- Goerthe’s Ghost: German Publishers Angry About Online Services Not Infringing Their Snippet Rights, Disruptive Competition Project, Oct. 6, 2014
- German copyright law is unconstitutional, Yahoo says in complaint, PCWorld, Aug. 1, 2014
- Thumbnails: French proposal for payment of royalties by search engines, Kluwer Copyright Blog, Apr. 28, 2014
- Spanish Snippet Tax Follows Trend of Targeting Internet Services, Disruptive Competition Project, Apr. 24, 2014
- The Spanish Google Tax, or (Twice) the Perfect Cartel, Chillin’ Competition Blog, Mar. 19, 2014
- Spain Greenlights Measure for Newspapers to Charge Search Engines…, Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 15, 2014
- Spain to force search engines to pay to display some content, Reuters UK, Feb. 14, 2014
- Ancillary Copyright in Germany: From Opt-out to Opt-in on Google News, Disruptive Competition Project, July 1, 2013
- Germany Looks to Prop Up News Publishers With Snippet Subsidy, But Is a Quotation Tax Legal?, Disruptive Competition Project, Nov. 14, 2012
