Google News will shortly shut down in Spain, the first time the news-search service has abandoned an entire national market. The move is a response to Spain’s new intellectual property law, which would require Google to pay publishers in that country for publishing even small excerpts of their content. […]
The Spanish “Google tax” effort followed shortly after German publishers gave up their effort to get an 11 percent cut of gross revenue from Google News.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/the-predictable-result-of-spains-google-tax-no-more-google-news/