Belgium: Google News charged with copyright violations

Posted by John Burke on September 18, 2006 at 12:47 PM

A Belgian court has concluded that Google must stop publishing content from French newspapers on the Belgian version of its Google News aggregator or pay fines of up to €1million per day. Copiepress, a firm that handles copyright issues for the French and German-language Belgian press filed the complaint.

Said general secretary of Copiepresse, Margaret Boribon, "We are asking for Google to pay and seek our authorisation to use our content," adding that she is spreading the word among her colleagues in other countries.

The court also is forcing Google to clearly publish the court's ruling on its search and news homepages for the duration of five days.

Source: Brand Republic

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