Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation
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A Belgian judge found in favor Belgian newspaper publishers in the copyright case against Google News. The publishers charged that Google unfairly profited by posting short extracts of their stores on its web sites. Google appealed the first ruling, which came from Court of First Instance in Brussels, which had required Google to remove the content from Belgium's French and German newspapers from its site. But the judge today upheld the ruling saying, "Google cannot claim to be an exception under copyright law."Many believe this is the beginning of a long war against search engines, opening the door to future lawsuits that would limit the ability of European engines to display copyrighted material on their sites. Google told the press that it was "disappointed with the decision," noting that it planned to file yet another appeal. "We believe Google News is entirely legal," its spokesperson stated to the media, restating that the snippet quoted from the Belgian newspaper stories were meant to direct users to click through to the newspaper's site to read the full story content.While the ruling was upheld, the fines were reduced significantly, from nearly $2million per day for each day the content was not removed to approximately $33,000 per day.MSN and Yahoo are likely next on the chopping block as the Belgian paper has also made complaints against them, however so far only filing legal action against Google. Microsoft stated today that it would "provisionally" remove all links to the Belgian newspaper rather than sort it out in court.Google has delayed its launch of Google News to readers in Denmark after newspapers there demanded a system that would allow them to opt-in or out of Google's service rather than be crawled automatically by the news search feature. Google Images is also the target of European wrath as a Norwegian media group is publicly objecting to the way that Google reuses their news photos. A spokesman for the European Commission stated that the commission might be taking a closer look at copyright laws in Europe as a direct result of the Google ruling.
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A Belgian judge found in favor Belgian newspaper publishers in the copyright case against Google News. The publishers charged that Google unfairly profited by posting short extracts of their stores on its web sites. Google appealed the first ruling, which came from Court of First Instance in Brussels, which had required Google to remove the content from Belgium's French and German newspapers from its site. But the judge today upheld the ruling saying, "Google cannot claim to be an exception under copyright law."Many believe this is the beginning of a long war against search engines, opening the door to future lawsuits that would limit the ability of European engines to display copyrighted material on their sites. Google told the press that it was "disappointed with the decision," noting that it planned to file yet another appeal. "We believe Google News is entirely legal," its spokesperson stated to the media, restating that the snippet quoted from the Belgian newspaper stories were meant to direct users to click through to the newspaper's site to read the full story content.While the ruling was upheld, the fines were reduced significantly, from nearly $2million per day for each day the content was not removed to approximately $33,000 per day.MSN and Yahoo are likely next on the chopping block as the Belgian paper has also made complaints against them, however so far only filing legal action against Google. Microsoft stated today that it would "provisionally" remove all links to the Belgian newspaper rather than sort it out in court.Google has delayed its launch of Google News to readers in Denmark after newspapers there demanded a system that would allow them to opt-in or out of Google's service rather than be crawled automatically by the news search feature. Google Images is also the target of European wrath as a Norwegian media group is publicly objecting to the way that Google reuses their news photos. A spokesman for the European Commission stated that the commission might be taking a closer look at copyright laws in Europe as a direct result of the Google ruling.
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