The decision to close Google News in Spain because of a law requiring aggregators to pay publishers for linking content will reverberate around the world, the company said.

Google has said it will shut down its Google News service in Spain to prevent publishers’ content from appearing on it, ahead of a new law requiring the internet search company to pay Spanish news organisations for linked content or snippets of news.

Spain’s parliament has approved intellectual property laws that allow news publishers to charge aggregators each time they display news content in search results.

Spain’s parliament has approved new intellectual property laws that allow news publishers to charge aggregators each time they display news content in search results.