The Mountain View-based company Google is, once again, sent to
court for copyright infringement, being accused by the
copyright organization CopiePresse that
it has published news belonging to Belgian newspapers without
authorization. The copyright group demanded damages of $77
million due to the fact that Google posted on Google News
stories written by Le Soir and La Libre Belgique, eFluxMedia
reported. Google didn’t comment the case, explaining that court
documents had not been received by its officials, the same
source added.
A similar case took place last year when Google was accused of copyright infringement by CopiePresse because topics published by Belgian newspapers were posted on Google News. Although Google explained that Google News only provides the title of the news story along with a summary and that its service is actually a great source of traffic, a judge ruled that the Mountain View company should stop gathering news from CopiePresse’s members.
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