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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. Gosh, it wouldn't parallel the way the US... by Giant+Electronic+Bra · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has treated the rest of the world for the last 50 years or so would it? Don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot I take it...

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  2. Re:Yeah, but it's France.... by godrik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't worry, the french government is too occupied looking good to make war. The military would probably go on strike. And the left wing would be concerned by the carbon impact of making such a war.

    BTW, you should not worry about the eggs on junk food^W^Wpizza as it might bring you some real cheese! :)

  3. Re:Yeah, but it's France.... by gregarican · · Score: 0, Troll

    True, as the French surrendered (again) before we became fully engaged there. Prior to their (typical) surrender we helped back them in terms of money and troops. Yet even with the quagmire that sadly enough was Vietnam I don't think it's comparable to the poor choices that Nappy made back in the day...

  4. Never said it was by Giant+Electronic+Bra · · Score: 0, Troll

    Didn't even imply it. Just noting that what goes around comes around. Of course in this case the US dished it out to everyone and now the EU is dishing it out to the Canadians. Guess it sucks in this violentist world to be a small power.

    But hey, pretty soon the US will be wishing it still had the clout of Canada. I think the short end of that stick is going to be a hard whipping.

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    "Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
    1. Re:Never said it was by Giant+Electronic+Bra · · Score: 1, Troll

      Yeah, its the end of the US lording it over the rest of the world for sure. We did make this bed though and now we're going to have to sleep in it. We could have gotten off oil 30 years ago when the handwriting was on the wall, stayed out of Vietnam, kept the CIA out of everyone else's business etc. Doesn't make us worse than anyone else, but we sure didn't make things better. Ah well, so it goes. Whoever's the next whip hand will get theirs in turn as well no doubt.

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      "Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
  5. What? by mcgrew · · Score: 1, Troll

    France didn't surender to Google???

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  6. Wanted more info on Editions du Seuil... by cdrudge · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was looking for a french book publisher, so I tried to do a google search for "Editions du Seuil publishing house". It didn't return back any results though. Weird. I guess I'll go with someone else that has an online presence.