Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday December 18 2009, @04:12PM
from the slap-on-the-wrist dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "A Paris court on Friday found Google guilty of violating copyright by digitizing books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court found against Google after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and authors were losing out in the latest stage of the digital revolution."

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Yeah, but it's France.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Itninja (937614) writes: on Friday December 18 2009, @04:18PM (#30492454) Homepage

Google should fight. Or, better yet, just threaten to fight. If the past is any indication, the French will surrender.

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Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)

by Monkeedude1212 (1560403) writes: on Friday December 18 2009, @04:44PM (#30492842) Journal

So what are they complaining about?
I'm not sure, but I think one of the extracts included something about Snape killing Dumbledore.
The French were quite upset.

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Re:Yeah, but it's France.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Monkeedude1212 (1560403) writes: on Friday December 18 2009, @06:06PM (#30493922) Journal

I refuse. There are some things an Egg is good for. Pizza is not one of them.
No, this is not my opinion, this is scientific FACT. Don't make me cite a source.

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Re:It died long ago (Score:2, Funny)

by LordAndrewSama (1216602) writes: on Saturday December 19 2009, @07:09AM (#30497710)

As a brit, I honestly never expected to, in my life, hear the words "the British have it right" regarding our government. What you say makes sense, but it just doesn't quite compute...

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Yeah, but it's France.... (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:Yeah, but it's France.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:It died long ago (Score:2, Funny)

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