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Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slap-on-the-wrist dept.

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."

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  1. Found? by sexconker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google wasn't found guilty. They were openly, admittedly, unabashedly guilty of digitizing and putting up excerpts of books they did not hold ANY copyright to.

    They only thing that happened was that the court decided the this law is valid even for a mega corp like Google.

    THAT, my friends, is the real shocker.

    And all you Googlebots can bitch about the law all you want, that's fine. Get the laws changed (in France, here, wherever). But Google brazenly did shit that was completely illegal. I am glad they got hit for it.

    Corporations should NOT be above the law.