A French court has reportedly ruled against Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, in a copyright infringement case filed by a French publisher. According to the court, Google violated copyrights by digitising books and putting extracts online without authorisation.
The court has ordered Google to pay more than €300,000 in damages and interest and to stop digital reproduction of the material. As part of the ruling, the company has also been ordered to pay €10,000 a day in fines until it removes extracts of some French books from its online database. Google claims to have complied with French copyright law and has plans to appeal the decision.
The suit was originally filed in May 2006 by French publisher La Martiniere and later joined by the French authors group SGDL and French Publishers Association. The suit is just one of several filed by publishers and authors who are upset with Google posting extracts of their books online without fairly compensating them. Earlier in 2008, Google lost a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild. The company was ordered to pay authors and publishers $125 million as compensation then. An amended agreement in November clarified certain changes and updates to the settlement.
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