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> arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks

This will do wonders for the SEO of these newspapers, not to mention their presence at all in the discourse.

> arbitrarily small citations fall under this law, and it includes hyperlinks.

Is this law retroactive? What do you do with the already existing links on the Spanish web and Spanish wikipedia ? It's not just a Google tax, it's a Hypertext tax.

Now I want to be true. Hopefully, it will have an inoculating effect.

I suspect it'd be easier to just move your global, internet operation out of Spain completely with no legal ties for them to sue you with.

A link isn't a quote though. It's an address. It's metadata. It's not in the content of the article.