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Copiepresse, a copyright group for Belgian newspapers, is suing Google for up to €49.1 million for displaying links to the publishers' content on Google News, the company's news search engine.

Copiepresse additionally requests that Google publish the court's ruling for 20 days on Google's Belgian website and news.Google.be. For each day Google fails to do so, Copiepresse seeks a €1 million fine.

Google News compiles links to news stories customized to fit users' searches, a service, Copiepresse complains, that allows Google to steal advertising profits away from the newspapers.

This is the second time in the past two years Copiepresse has sued Google. A February 2007 court ruling mandated that Google remove all links from its website and pay Copiepresse damages.

In related news, Google responded today to another grievance being brought against the company, Viacom's lawsuit against the Google-owned YouTube, calling it a "threat to the flow of information on the web."

Click here for further coverage of Copiepresse's lawsuit.

Source: Bloomberg News through EJC, Boston Globe

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) released its 2007 annual report today, revealing a 20 percent increase in rulings in the past year. The PCC received a record 4,340 complaints in 2007.
 
For the first time, more complaints were made about online news articles than hardcopies.
 
One column in The Mirror about Madeleine McCann attracted 485 complaints alone.
 
Of the 4,340 complaints, the majority were complaints about accuracy; issues of accuracy also made up 75.4 percent of all breaches of the code.
 
There were also 245 rulings regarding privacy; 52.3 percent of these cases involved regional press.
 
The PCC credited the growth in rulings to an increased public awareness about what the watchdog does and the ease of complaining via email.
 
Source: Holdthefrontpage.co.uk

Should newspapers train journalists in-house or outsource the job? Do they have to send their journalists away for weeks at a time? Is online training the future? Tony Johnston, Head of Training for UK’s national press agency, the Press Association (PA), tells the Weblog of some of the organization’s training programs for papers, with comments from Daily Telegraph deputy editor, Rhidian Wynn-Davies. And as a bonus, you also get some practical tips gathered live from one of the PA’s videojournalism training courses, taught by David Dunkley.

Last week, the Press Complaints Commission in the UK made its first video ruling against a Scottish newspaper. The paper had run mobile phone footage of a misbehaved classroom, in which the students were identifiable.

Denmark's Director of Public Prosecutions Henning Fode has announced that he will not press charges against Jyllands Posten, the newspaper that began the recent Mohammed cartoons row by publishing, in September 2005, a series of 12 cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. The cartoons resulted in uproar and sometimes violent protests amongst the Muslim community worldwide. Mr. Fode asserted that the Jyllands Posten cartoons did not contravene Danish law on racism and blasphemy.