Google fined USD430 thousand because of copyright

December 20, 2009

The court in Paris ordered the internet giant Google to pay a fine of USD430.000 because of copyright infringement has one of the publishers in France.

Based on information from the Wall Street Journal, Sunday (20/12/2009), Google should pay USD14.000 every day, the content of the publisher’s books are published online by Google.

The publisher, La Martiniere- Le Seuil sue Google because it has scanned some of his own content and publish it on Google Books. This was considered as a violation of copyright in the content of La Martuniere-Le Seuil.

Still based on the testimony cited by the Wall Street Journal, Google has scanned 100,000 French paper in his database. Approximately 80 percent of the paper is still under copyright.


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