Belgian court says Google verdict not before 2007
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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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Copyright groups have hailed a Belgian  court decision making an Internet service provider responsible  for illegal file-sharing on its network as a European first  that could help the music industry.
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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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Google is facing another setback against its News service after a court in Belgium ruled the search giant is violating copyright law by indexing and linking to stories in Belgian newspapers. The decision is the latest in a series of challenges against the site.
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A federal appeals court handed  Google Inc  a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday,  tossing out part of a summary judgment in the Web search  engine's favor in a lawsuit filed by HyperphRase Technologies,  LLC.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has scheduled an appeal for July 17 in itsÂ copyright dispute with Belgian newspaper publishers, although the two sides expect to request an extension while they try to resolve the conflict amicably, spokespeople for Google and the publishing group, Copiepresse, said on Tuesday. The court's schedule required Google to file its appeal 10 days ago, otherwise a ruling against it from February would have become permanent. But there will be no appeals hearing as such this month, and the two sides will merely ask the court for an extension while they continue their talks, said Catherine Anciaux, a legal advisor for Copiepresse. A Google spokeswoman concurred. "There will be no substantive hearing for several months," she said. Copiepresse, the publishing group representing Le Soir, Le Libre Belgique and other Belgian newspapers, sued Google last August for copyright infringement, arguing that it profits unfairly by posting snippets of its members' news stories on Google's Web sites without paying for their use. The Court of First Instance in Brussels sided with Copiepresse in September,Â ordering Google to removeÂ the Belgian Web sites from Google News and its main search engines, which it did. The court reaffirmed its decision in February. Google was also fined â¬25,000 ($34,000) for each day that it delayed removing the newspapers' content from its Web site. It has not yet paid any fines, which will be considered as part of the appeals process, the Google spokeswoman said. The two sides clearly hope to settle the matter out of court, however. They reached an initial agreement in May thatÂ allowed Google to begin linkingÂ to the newspapers from its main search engine again, although it still cannot list them inÂ Google News. Google maintains that linking to the content is legal and provides a useful service for the general public and the newspapers, because it drives traffic to their sites. Copiepresse has said it wants to be included in Google News but that it should be compensated, by an advertising revenue sharing agreement or in some other way. Â
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Internet search engine Google Inc. said Monday it was weighing a possible appeal after a Paris court ordered it to pay 200,000 euros (&#36;260,000) plus costs to luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton for breach of trademark.
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Google Inc. on Saturday published on  its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet  search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its  news amalgamation service.
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Google has reached a settlement in its copyright suit in Belgium with with news photographers and journalists. The NY Times (reg req&#8217;d) carries the Bloomberg story:  Google, the world&#8217;s most-used Internet search engine, reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists yesterday in a copyright dispute over how Google&#8217;s news service links to newspaper content. The [...]
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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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It seems the battle about news scraping continues in Belgium.  From Reuters: A Belgian court ruled on Tuesday that Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian newspapers, imperilling one of the web search leader&#8217;s most popular services if other courts follow suit. The case was brought by Copiepresse, which manages copyrights for Belgium&#8217;s French- [...]
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A federal appeals court handed Google Inc a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday, tossing out part of a summary judgment in the Web search engine's favor in a lawsuit filed by HyperphRase Technologies, LLC.
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Lawyers for Belgium's French-speaking newspapers and Internet search engine Google clashed in court, during a hearing into a copyright case against the US giant.
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Thats the $64,000 question now that a court in Belgium ruled that the search engine company violated that nation's copyright laws.
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By CONSTANT BRAND  BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.
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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 has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop reproducing news articles from papers within the country for Google News. If other courts follow suit, one of the most popular services for the company outside of search could be in jeopardy.