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Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the de-index-belgium-in-retaliation dept.

schmiddy writes "A court in Brussels, Belgium, has just found Google guilty of violating copyright law with its Google News aggregator. According to the ruling, Google News' links and brief summaries of news sources violates copyright law. Google will be forced to pay $32,600 for each day it displayed the links of the plaintiffs. Although Google plans to appeal, this ruling could have chilling effects on fair use rights on the web in the rest of Europe as well if other countries follow suit."

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  1. Do socialist countries just hate big business? by geekoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And people complain about American copyright. Sheesh

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  2. Re:Reserve the right to refuse service by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google's motto is "don't be evil". Abusing their power in this way because of a disagreement with a legal judgement would be stretching the concept of "not evil" a little.