French News Agency Sues Google News

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 19, 2005 @03:23AM 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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robots.txt by n0dalus · 2005-03-19 03:32 · Score: 1, Redundant

Google's indexes the web.
If you have a problem with that, put a robots.txt file on your site. Google even explains how to do that in it's own help pages.
This is all just a publicity stunt.