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French News Agency Sues Google News

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the media-watchdogs dept.

n1ywb writes "CNN and others are reporting that 'News agency Agence France Presse has sued Google Inc., alleging the Web search leader includes AFP's photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission. The French news service is seeking damages of at least $17.5 million and an order barring Google News from displaying AFP photographs, news headlines or story leads, according to the suit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.' This means they're suing in America this time, not France, which means Google might actually care if they lose."

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  1. Re:AFP will be the ones to lose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Exactly they are shooting themselves in the foot.

    Yes, and neither can a baboon. So what?

    This is just like Apple suing their fan base

    Ermm, with that kind of attitude, it will not stay your current job for long...

    and other companies suing sites for deep linking -

    Then do, instead of looking for silly excuses!

    all of this merely reduces their fan base

    Not the same way as with IE, for sure. But that doesn't mean it is impossible. At our site, we use a perl-based configuration file generator to achieve the same goal. And once set up, it's not really that difficult to use!

    and reduces their advertisement dollars -

    Well, we've build a web front-end for our config-file generator, so that's click of a button too. Even a baboon could use it!

    they are the losers.

    Remote administration has been standard in Unix since what... 1969? Welcome to the real world, latecomer! Yes, indeed, Microsoft are the losers!

  2. Re:AFP will be the ones to lose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Exactly they are shooting themselves in the foot.

    Wouldn't shooting a baboon in its foot violate the "cruelty against animals" statutes?

  3. Dear Moderator... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I see you have some mod points. Would you be so kind of applying them to this comment, which is in dire need of 6 (six!) full Redundant moderations. I know that you only have five (sorry, 4...), but it would already be a good start, and lead by example.

    Thanks.

  4. Googlezon is Coming by gotscheme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As predicted - http://www.broom.org/epic/ols-master.html