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."

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[Tom]

Yes, the newspapers cried.

However, they didn't use their de facto powers to attack Google, they used the court system as our society intents, because that (resolving dispures) is what the court systems are for.

Google is welcome and planning to use the same means to get a different ruling. They've been acting restrained and responsibly in all those cases.

I also think the jerks on /. who project their dreams of power on Google or MS ("leave europe!") are probably working minimum wage jobs for a good reason. Shooting someone just because you happen to have the gun isn't how society works anymore.