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Google enjoined from linking to Belgian newspapers

Copiepresse, an organisation which manages copyright for the Belgian French- and German-language press has won its suit against Google in a Belgian court which has ordered it to stop reproducing article snippets from French-language newspapers in an unprecedented copyright crackdown over what is a common online practice (link here).

Google, which is planning to appeal the ruling, said that it had removed links to the newspapers from news.google.be and was in the process of taking them down from its news sites in other countries.

Agence-France Presse has brought a similar suit and is seeking monetary damages.

If this becomes widespread, it will really damage Google's usefulness and popularity .


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