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French Court Says Google Violating Book Publishers' Copyrights

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 18, 2009 - 9:34am.
Paris - A French court has found Google (NASD: GOOG) liable for copyright infringement, for including works from French writers in its book-scanning project without prior permission, Bloomberg reported. The ruling orders Google to immediately cease scanning French works into its digital library project, and pay publisher Editions du Seuil $430,000 in damages. Google has announced plans to appeal the French court's decision.

"French readers now face the threat of losing access to a significant body of knowledge and falling behind the rest of Internet users," Philippe Colombet, director of development for Google Books in France, told Bloomberg.

"Displaying a limited number of short extracts from books complies with copyright legislation both in France and the U.S. -- and improves access to books."

 

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Published in DMW Daily, December 18, 2009
tags: Law | Lawsuits | Google | Publishing | Google Book Search | Editions du Seuil |



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