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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. Slashdot found guilty of editorialism violations by Vivieus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/13 44248

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  2. Re:Slashdot found guilty of editorialism violation by Penguinoflight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They can't look back that far for articles, it was posted NEARLY 24 hours ago.

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  3. Re:Slashdot found guilty of editorialism violation by Vivieus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At least they have the excuse that it was not on the front page anymore ;)

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  4. Re:Slashdot found guilty of editorialism violation by compro01 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    similar headline, but not the same case. that one was about google's web caching, this one is about google news.

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