Policy Observatory

The Spanish Association of Internet users publishes and discusses the new leaked draft of the Digital Tax bill (known as Canon Digital), that would amend the Intellectual Property Law, if approved. In the opinion of the authors, the new draft doubles down in hurtful practices, abiding to the will of the industry and hurting the consumers.

Finally, the Spanish Constitutional Court has sided with the Government and declared unconstitutional the Catalonian digital canon, a tax that the local Government (Generalitat) was charging to the Internet Service Providers operating in Catalonia.