Google Loses in French Copyright Case

Dec 19, 2009 English 1st Paragraph

ARIS — A French court ruled on Friday that Google infringed copyrights by digitizing books and putting extracts online without authorization, dealing a setback to its embattled book project. The court in Paris ruled against Google after a publishing group, La Martinière, backed by publishers and authors, argued that the industry was being exploited by Google’s Book Search program, which was started in 2005. The court ordered Google to pay over 300,000 euros, or $430,000, in damages and interest and to stop…

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