MADRID (Reuters) – Alphabet (NASDAQ:) plans to reopen its Google Information service in Spain early subsequent yr after the federal government handed new laws that permits media shops to barter immediately with the tech large, the corporate stated on Wednesday.

The service closed in 2014 after the federal government handed a rule that pressured Alphabet and different information aggregators to pay a collective licensing charge to republish headlines or snippets of reports.

“Beginning early subsequent yr, Google Information will present hyperlinks to helpful and related information tales,” Google Spain Nation Supervisor Fuencisla Clemares wrote on an organization weblog.

“Over the approaching months, we can be working with publishers to achieve agreements which cowl their rights below the brand new legislation,” he added.

The Spanish authorities on Tuesday accredited a European Union copyright directive that permits third-party on-line information platforms to barter immediately with content material suppliers.

The EU laws, which should be adopted by all member states, requires platforms akin to Google, Fb (NASDAQ:) and others to share income with publishers but it surely additionally removes the collective charge and permits them to achieve particular person or group agreements with publishers.

The talk over Google Information had pitched conventional media, who backed the previous system, in opposition to a brand new breed of on-line shops, who anticipated extra revenues from direct agreements with Alphabet and the opposite platforms than by means of their share of the collective charge.

Arsenio Escolar, chairman of the CLABE publishers affiliation, which teams round 1,000 primarily on-line information shops together with main digital manufacturers akin to El Espanol and Eldiario.es, stated he was happy with the brand new laws.

The AMI media affiliation, which represents primarily the previous guard of conventional media and was in favour of sustaining the earlier system declined to touch upon the federal government’s choice.