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Google Begins Removing AFP From Google News
An anonymous reader writes "Google has began removing web-based content of Paris-Based news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), from the Google News service. This past weekend we reported that the Agence France Presse had sued Google for displaying their photo's, stories, and news headlines on Google News without permission. AFP is seeking damages of around $17.5 million and requested the courts that Google News is not to display any of its copyrighted material. It appears Google is complying with what the AFP is requesting. Google doesn't have a timetable for when all AFP links and content will be removed from Google News, but the company is actively working on the matter, said Steve Langdon, a Google spokesman."
What's racist about insulting the French? They're not a race, they're a species of monkey. The cheese eatin' surrender kind.
Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
exactly! google can no longer safely index any page with AFP content.
removing all pages with any AFP content is the only way to be 100% safe.
It strikes me as very time-consuming and inefficient to go to a dozen different sites just to get some news. How much of that stuff are you even going to remember? Also if you have any morals you'll take news.google.com out of your menu, that site infringes people's copyright. At least the BBC gets its own news (legally).