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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."
With the rise of the EU, which is now a direct business competitor to other major powers like the US, Russia and China, we are bound to see more fuck-you rulings like this.
We've already seen it with the Oracle-Sun acquisition. Being mainly American companies, the EU has dicked them around time and time again when it comes to reviewing the proposed merging of the companies.
This should raise a warning flag when dealing with European businesses or getting into European markets. Just being from the wrong side of the Atlantic could raise a whole lot of headaches.
I love french vajayjay!
It's goatse.fr for a reason.
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...
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
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! :)
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...
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.
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
France didn't surender to Google???
Free Martian Whores!
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.
This is bullshit. Without the publisher advertising and distributing the book nobody would even know it existed. Ofcource the publisher deserves a cut. If you think its so easy to make it as an author without a publisher, prove it, publish your results, else STFU because you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. And just to pre-empt other retards here, no, pointing to a few examples isn't "proof".
Google is using copyright content without permission to make money on online bookstore click-throughs. Somehow I don't think they would be so careless with GPL copyright as it would freak out the simpleton fanbois like you who they desperately need as part of their online forum defense squad.