Friday, December 18, 2009

Google Book Search violates French copyright law; Ars Technica, 12/18/09

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica; Google Book Search violates French copyright law:

Google owes €300,000 to a French publishing group after a court found the search and advertising giant liable for scanning La Martinière's books for use in Google Book Search without permission.

"Google's preferred way of indexing information—doing it without permission, relying on fair use or fair dealing laws—has run into yet another spot of trouble in Western Europe. A French court has just ruled that the advertising giant must pay €300,000 in damages to a French publishing group for scanning, indexing, and displaying snippets of its work as part of Google Book Search."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/google-book-search-violates-french-copyright-law.ars

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