Belgian Court Rules That Google Violated Copyright Laws
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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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Search firm has to be told twice Copiepresse, the French and German language news agency in Belgium, has for the second time won the support of the Belgian courts in its battle to stop Google including snippets of its articles on the Google News search pages.â¦
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Google Inc. won a major legal victory yesterday when a federal judge ruled that the Internet search engine's advertising policy does not violate federal trademark laws.
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A Belgian court said on Friday it  would wait until after the new year to decide whether to cancel  an injunction forbidding Web search leader Google Inc. from  reproducing extracts from Belgian press reports.
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A Belgian court has ordered US Internet search giant Google to stop reproducing articles, photos and graphics from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers on its news site.
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A Belgian court rules that the search company violates copyright law by providing free access to news stories that online newspapers generally charge for. By the Associated Press.
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Online search leader Google Inc. has won a key court ruling in a patent dispute over its popular three-dimensional software that provides Internet tours of the Earth.
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By Eric Pfanner  A copyright dispute between Google and a group of publishers in Belgium escalated Friday as the Internet search engine defied a court order to publish an earlier decision in the case on its Belgian Web sites.
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A federal appeals court handed  Google  a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday,  tossing out part of a summary judgment in Google's favor in a  lawsuit filed by Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has reached an agreement with two groups representing authors and photographers in Belgium that had objected to the way the company indexes and displays their content on its Google News Web site. The agreements with Sofam, which says it represents 3,700 photographers, and Scam, which represents 20,000 writers, mark the first steps by Google in resolving a copyright lawsuit that forced it to remove French- and German-language Belgian newspaper content from its Web site. On Friday, a judge in Brussels heard arguments in that case, filed by a group of newspaper publishers, Copiepresse. Sofam (SociÃ©tÃ© MultimÃ©dia des Auteurs des Arts Visuels) and Scam (SociÃ©tÃ© Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) were among several smaller groups that had joined Copiepresse in its legal action. "We reached an agreement with Sofam and Scam that allows us to make extensive use of their content," Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said on Monday. The agreement allows Google to use content from the groups in "new ways" that "go beyond what copyright law allows," she said. She declined to say if Google is paying the groups or to provide further details. Google has signed a deal to use content from the Associated Press newswire that it described in similar language. Copiepresse has complained that Google violates its members' copyrights by indexing their content and displaying it on Google News without asking permission. Google says the use is legitimate because it shows only a snippet of news stories, and because it directs users to the publications' Web sites to read the full story. On Friday, the judge in Brussels said she would give her verdict in the case early next year. Google News has also run into trouble in Scandinavia, where it launched two weeks ago. The company delayed the introduction of the news service in Denmark after publishers there objected to having to "opt out" if they didn't want their content displayed on Google's Web site. And a publishing group in Norway has protested the use of its members' news photographs, which it says is not permitted under Norwegian copyright law. Google has declined to comment on talks with any particular publishing groups, but says it is open to discussions to resolve disputes. Â
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Google said it was disappointed with the ruling that it violated copyright laws and that it planned to file a further appeal.
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Google Inc. GOOG.O is refusing to   post a copy of a Belgian legal ruling against it on its local   Web site, and is asking the court to annul that provision of   the case and the daily fines associated with it.
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Unhold the Press! Google has settled with two media agencies in a Belgian copyright case which could change the face of its Google News service. It has not yet settled with the group that started the law suit, Copiepresse.â¦
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A Belgian court said on Friday it  would wait until after the new year to decide whether to uphold  an injunction blocking Web search leader Google Inc. from  reproducing snippets of Belgian press reports.
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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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Google defied a court order to publish a ruling that prevents it from running summaries of news reports and links to articles in Belgium.
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Google has been sued by adult site Perfect 10 for alleged copyright infringement. Perfect 10&#39;s suit says that Google&#39;s Web search engine allows people to see copyrighted images owned by the company (access