Google Relents, Publishes Belgian Ruling

gambit3 writes "Google on Saturday published on its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its news amalgamation service. The move constituted a u-turn as Google had said on Friday that it would not comply with the court order despite facing a fine of 500,000 euros ($640,900) daily if it did not publish the ruling." From the article: "Google said its service is lawful and drives traffic to newspaper sites because people need to click through to the original publisher to read the full story. It now displays stories from news agencies, foreign newspapers and Internet sites belonging to local television stations."

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Re:I don't get it

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I still fail to see how it is a copyright infringement to link to news articles? It's not like Google is hosting the article on it's own website.

According to the ruling I'm reading right now on google.be, I can sum up your misunderstanding in two words: Google cache.