Google News faces â¬1m fine in Brussels
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If this is Tuesday, this must be the Belgium courts A Brussels Court has ruled that Google must remove all articles from Belgian publishing group Copiepress from its Google News service because it is in breach of author's rights and Belgian databank regulations. If Google fails to abide by the court ruling, it faces a fine of â¬1m per day.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. refused to comply yesterday with a Belgian court decision that required the company to publish the original text of the ruling on its sites, calling that requirement ``unnecessary" and ``disproportionate."
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A case involving newspapers in Belgium could affect cases that publishers have brought against the search company in other countries.
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Google filed with the European Union  competition regulator on Friday for permission to buy rival  DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, the European Commission said.
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Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing search data for up to two years.
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Google will tell Brussels it needs to  hold on to users&#39; search data for up to two years for security  and commercial reasons after being warned it could be violating  European privacy laws by doing so.
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The US Internet portal Google complied with a court order and posted on its Belgian websites a copyright ruling that went against the giant online information provider.
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European Union regulators will review Google's plans to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion after national authorities declined to take the case.
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PARIS - France&#39;s stock market regulator on Tuesday fined Jean-Marie Messier euro1 million (US$1.35 million) for misleading financial information issued by Vivendi Universal SA when he was its chairman and CEO, Messier&#39;s lawyer said.
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(InfoWorld) - A court forced Google Inc. on Monday to remove all French and German language newspapers published in Belgium from its Google News search service. The order comes after an association of local publishers sued the search engine giant successfully for copyright abuse, Google said Monday.Copiepresse, an organization that helps protect the copyright of some of Belgiumâs best known newspapers including Le Soir and Le Libre Belgique, sued Google for publishing summaries of the newspapersâ stories, along with a link to the newspapersâ own sites.The court warned Google that failure to remove all material from the Belgian newspapers from Google news from Monday would result in daily fines of around US$1 million.The case was heard on Sept. 5 at the Belgian court of first instance but Google claims to have only found out about the court hearing and its outcome last Friday. "We were not able to make our case directly to the judge. We are disappointed by the decision, which we believe is flawed and which we intend to appeal,â said D.J. Collins, a spokesman for Google based in London. Reports earlier Monday claimed that articles from the newspapers were still appearing on the Google News search engine, but none were visible in the early afternoon local time. Collins said his company was complying: "We have removed the relevant sources," he said. Copiepresse wasnât immediately available for comment but in statements to journalists earlier in the day the organizationâs general secretary Margaret Boribon said legal action against Google was necessary because the company was profiting from the work of the newspapers. "We are asking for Google to pay and seek our authorization to use our content," Boribon told news agencies including Reuters. Collins dismissed the case as "entirely unnecessary." "Google has a clear policy of respecting the wishes of content owners. If a newspaper does not want to be part of Google News we remove their content from our index -- all they have to do is ask. There is no need for legal action and all the associated costs," he said. Google News benefits publishers, he added, by making it easier for people to find their content and driving large numbers of users to their Web sites. "It is important to remember that we never show more than the headlines and a few snippets of text. If people want to read the entire story they have to click through to the newspapers' Web site," he said. The case involving the Belgian newspaper publishers is similar to legal action brought against Google by the French national news agency Agence France Presse a year and a half ago. AFP generates revenue by charging fees to news outlets that subscribe to its wire service. In its complaint, AFP charges Google with copyright violation, alleging that, as a nonsubscriber to AFP, Google has no right to include AFP content in Google News. That case is still ongoing.
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Google is being investigated by the European Union over possible violation of the bloc's privacy rules. At issue is the search engine's practice of retaining user information for up to two years.
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Don't publish and .be damned Google has lost its appeal to Belgian courts to ditch part of the ruling in a copyright case against its news service which it lost earlier this month.â¦
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The French media giant and its former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier are each fined 1m euros for misleading the public and investors.
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Waterloo for Google News in November Google has finally complied with a court order that it must publish the judgment in a copyright case it lost against Belgian newspaper group Copiepress.â¦
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A Belgian court ruled on Tuesday that  Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian  newspapers, imperiling one of the web search leader's most  popular services if other courts follow suit.
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European Union regulators will decide before November whether to clear Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion takeover bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick or study the issue further.
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A Belgian court ruled on Tuesday that  Google  may not reproduce extracts from a variety of  Belgian newspapers, imperiling one of the web search leader's  most popular services if other courts follow suit.