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Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement
adeelarshad82 writes "A Paris court on Friday found Google guilty of violating copyright by digitizing books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court found against Google after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and authors were losing out in the latest stage of the digital revolution."
Plus it's the FRENCH for God's sake! They barely let US forces fly over their airspace for tactical missions that protect the French's own interests. The basis of that alone makes me ::rollseyes:: regarding this lawsuit.
Agreed! America has done this to us for FAR too long. It's about time someone return the favor. America has never known war, famine, poverty, or terror in any real sense, not like we have. Very soon, Karma willing, they shall have all of these, and they deserve every moment of it.
Cue all the Americans whining about those Europeans daring to stand in the way of their corporate imperialism.
Serves America right for being a bunch of stupid, ignorant, greedy, power-mad thugs who will consume each other from the inside.
Soon America will be just a bunch of vacation property for rich Arabs and Chinamen. The only jobs left will be service jobs which cater to said foreigners. The education system will crumble under its own top-heavy weight while mosques which rival the largest megachurches will pop up everywhere. The American military, continuing to wage unpopular wars, will exhaust its resources and become mercenaries for hire waging wars-by-proxy in behalf of the highest bidders. The Americans' sons and daughters will be shining the shoes and washing the dishes of the very people that their proud parents and grandparents fought. Protesters, kooks, and other loudmouths will be silenced permanently by the Department of Homeland Security and the CIA's clandestine service.
I am an American and proud patriot, but I'll be long-gone before any of the above happens. Noorwegen, hier kom ik!
The difference is "Fair Use".
The Doctrine of Fair Use states that very small excerpts of a copyrighted work may be used for academic teaching, political commentary, and indexing.
Competition with the actual author of the work with a verbatim copy, as in the Psystar case, is clearly not fair use.
This ruling, upholding the French version of the DMCA (except far more draconian), essentially says that you can sue a Phone Book company for putting the copyrighted name of your business in their phone book. It also makes programming open/free software into a "suicide mission". France is going to suffer decreased competition from these laws, and likely stunt their intellectual services economy as a result.
Maybe it's not the same degree of mistake as Vietnam and Iraq that the French warned Americans against, but it will hurt them economically in the long run quite badly.
Yeah, It's not like the USA had to haul ass out of Vietnam with it's tail between it's .... uh... oh wait it did....
Huh?
Have you read ANY history books? EVER?
Let's break that down, shall we?
"had to" - Why did they have to? Because the politicians back home were worried about getting re-elected? ... that's now the new definition of "haul ass". ..." - The military won every battle, and had the victory thrown away by politicians. Dunno which of the two you're referring to, but you're dead wrong either way.
"haul ass" - Yah, an organized withdrawal over several years
"tail between it's