Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation

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."

Comments

Saw This Yesterday

[ShedPlant]

Is this any different from http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/13 44248yesterday's story or has Google been involved in multiple court cases in Belgium?

And the Belgians win

[Vengeance]

Or to put it another, more accurate way, they lose.

This is what happens when business is run by those who fail to understand it, or indeed to even know what their actual core business IS. C'est la guerre.

Scary!

[Jugalator]

So this quote:

South Korea and its partners in international efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons programs welcomed on Wednesday the agreement reached in Beijing to shut the Communist state's main nuclear reactor.

... could be a case of copyright infrigement on the International Herald Tribune?!

Besides, why are these guys trying to stop Google from linking to their web site?

Reserve the right to refuse service

[DrugCheese]

Google should just stop listing the offended site. I know it sets up precedence in court, but Google should just stop crawling the site. See how long before the sites' hits drop so low they start begging Google to list them again.