On November 3, the Spanish courts approved Law 21/2014 amending the Revised Text of Intellectual Property Law and amending the Civil Procedure Law. The amendments, which do not become effective until January 1, 2015, represent significant modifications to Spanish regulations on intellectual and industrial property matters. Notably, the amendments acknowledge the taxation of digital content aggregators for using fragments of current information.

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