IndustryBelgian Newspapers Want $77.5 million in Damages from Google

Belgian Newspapers Want $77.5 million in Damages from Google

A Belgian newspaper group has filed a suit asking for $77.5 million in damages from Google. The group, Copiepresse, claims Google has violated copyright law by publishing their pages on Google News and caching pages from their websites.

Copiepresse first brought a suit in 2006 and The Court of First Instance in Brussels sided with the newspaper group. Google has appealed, but removed the pages from its News and main search sites.

But Google began indexing the pages on its main site again, which drove Copiepresse to bring its latest suit. Google maintains that its search products are legal.

What do you think of Copiepresse’s lawsuits? Think they should just slap a robots.txt file on their site? Tell us how it is in the comments.

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