Belgian Newspapers Want $77.5 million in Damages from GooglePosted by Nathania JohnsonCopiepresse claims Google has violated copyright law by publishing their pages on Google News and caching pages from their websites.
A Belgian court sided with publishers last year when it ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by Copiepresse. Google's European partnership, lead Rob Jonas, reminded attendees at the MediaGuardian.co.uk Changing Media Summit that there already is...
Q&A On Google's Belgium News Agreements This week, news emerged about an agreement between Google and two Belgian author groups that were suing it over copyright issues. Google says it is not doing an about-face on opt-out in Denmark.
This week,
news emerged about an agreement between Google and two Belgian author groups
that were suing it over copyright issues. Below, a short Q
and Assucopie all
joined the
case after Google
posted the Belgian court ruling in late September.
Fight: Show Me The Money, Not The Opt-Out, Say Publishers article, is far
more about trying to pressure Google into a financial arrangement to use Belgian
news content than keeping that content out of Google itself.
Earlier,
we touched on the fact that Copiepresse was threatening to go after MSN for
carrying Belgian newspapers in the way it
went after MSN is latest target of Belgian copyright complaint from InfoWorld covers
how Copiepresse is now...
Google Changes Mind, Posts Belgian Ruling Google's Belgium Fight: Show Me The Money, Not The Opt-Out, Say Publishers - I've had a long talk with the group that so far has successfully sued Google in Belgium over indexing, a talk that leaves me...
Google Changes Mind, Posts Belgian Ruling Google's Belgium Fight: Show Me The Money, Not The Opt-Out, Say Publishers - I've had a long talk with the group that so far has successfully sued Google in Belgium over indexing, a talk that leaves me...
Belgian
newspapers recently, that Google can be bought off to avoid lawsuits. The main thing in my mind was if this was in
response to the Belgian lawsuit. Cached pages are an
example where content can be viewed without clicking through to the...
Changes Mind, Posts Belgian Ruling: Covers Google posting the ruling, plus
how dropping cached pages likely would help Google's case going forward. Belgian news issue that I've been covering, while William Slawski has a nice
translation in the...
Google has now posted the text of a Belgian ruling finding it violated copyright
on the Google Belgium home page. The court also ordered Google to post the ruling on its Belgian web site within
days or face a heavy fine.
Google Loses Appeal On Posting Belgian Ruling Google loses appeal on posting court ruling from Reuters covers Google losing an appeal that it should not be required to post the ruling of a Belgian court over a copyright infringement lawsuit on its...
Loses Appeal On Posting Belgian Ruling Google loses appeal on posting court ruling from Reuters covers Google losing
an appeal that it should not be required to post the ruling of a Belgian court
over a copyright infringement lawsuit on its...
Google loses appeal on posting court ruling from Reuters covers Google
losing an appeal that it should not be required to post the ruling of a Belgian
court over a copyright infringement lawsuit on its Belgian web search and news
sites.
In the week that the publishers of Le Soir and La Libre Belgique won their
case in the Belgian Courts against Google for illegally publishing content on
its news service without prior consent, the What they cannot do is help search engines access...
Ads, Supplementals, Belgian Cache, OneBox Spam, Adam Lasnik on Links, Search Pulse Google's Belgium Fight: Show Me The Money, Not The Opt-Out, Say Publishers Dissecting whether understanding patents helps search optimizers were panelists Jon Glick...
Belgian Cache, OneBox Spam, Adam Lasnik on Links, Search Pulse Belgium Fight: Show Me The Money, Not The Opt-Out, Say Publishers Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged
separately:
It's
unlikely that Google Belgium is actually being served up out of Belgium, so
artificially pretending that Google.com another other Google sites are somehow
outside" Belgian jurisdiction makes no sense.
Google launched Belgian site. Yahoo's Opt-Out Angers Users. Labeling Teoma a Google killer makes for a great headline, but is really rather silly. Teoma is a very good search engine, but at this point it poses very little threat to Google's...