Google Once Again Lawsuit Fodder for France
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Written By Reprise Media | March 21, 2005 | Share This
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The brand spankin’-new Google Blog over on CNET has this piece by Stefanie Olsen that talks about all the ways Google is getting France’s beret in a bunch over alleged copyright infringements, trademark names, and more.
The Agence France Presse is suing Google for supposedly infringing on its copyrights by using photos and headlines without prior […]
The brand spankin’-new Google Blog over on CNET has this piece by Stefanie Olsen that talks about all the ways Google is getting France’s beret in a bunch over alleged copyright infringements, trademark names, and more.
The Agence France Presse is suing Google for supposedly infringing on its copyrights by using photos and headlines without prior permission. The stories appear on the Google News page, which pulls in these and thousands of others in a collection of popular stories of the day.
Why is this an important debate? This could be a chance for other publishers to lash out at Google for its increasing power in the news aggregation field and could stand to threaten the aggregator as a delivery mechanism, though we don’t see that as happening any time soon.
Google also lost another round of the ‘trademark names as keyword triggers’ battle in a case filed by French travel companies Luteciel and Viaticum. Same initials as these guys, though we doubt there’s any relation.
France President Jacques Chirac also said this week that his country will starting its own digital book project, competing with Google’s print undertakings.
Now, come on. Whoever said the French were hostile…?
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