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Fine of 300,000 euros to Google for scanning books without permission
Google's lawyer, Benjamin du Chaffaut, addresses the press. (Picture: Reuters)
* Google was reported by a publishing group.
* The Internet search giant create a digital library.
* He disagreed with the ruling, will appeal.
20MINUTOS.ES / EFE. 18.12.2009 - 17.24 h
The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris has been sentenced to Google to digitize excerpts from books without the consent of the editors and imposed a fine of 300,000 euros in damages.
The fact that we played these text implies that Google has violated copyright court's ruling that prohibits the popular U.S. search engine to continue scanning texts without permission and requires you to pay that amount to the affected publishers denounced him, the French group The Martinière.
The fact that he played "fully" these texts and "made accessible" to everyone through the network means that Google has violated copyright, said the statement published. Therefore, the Tribunal will continue to do so prohibits and warns that will have to pay an additional fine of 10,000 euros for each day they fail to comply.
For its part, the Internet giant has already expressed its disagreement with the judge's decision and announced it would appeal the ruling. According to them, "French readers are now facing the threat of losing access to a wealth of knowledge and thus be placed behind the rest of Internet users. We need to show a limited number of brief excerpts from the book meets with copyright law in France and in the U.S. and improving access to books. If readers are able to search and find books, are more likely to buy and read these books. "
New setback
This court decision is a new setback to U.S. portal project called Google Books to which aims to create a massive digital library. The project was prompted by the Google agreement reached with publishers and authors associations of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, which allows you to display on the Internet from millions of books and sell digital copies of them, but that is still pending approval by U.S. judicial authorities.
Google already has scanned and cataloged on the Internet about a million books whose copyrights have expired or are nearing completion.
Google's lawyer, Benjamin du Chaffaut, addresses the press. (Picture: Reuters)
* Google was reported by a publishing group.
* The Internet search giant create a digital library.
* He disagreed with the ruling, will appeal.
20MINUTOS.ES / EFE. 18.12.2009 - 17.24 h
The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris has been sentenced to Google to digitize excerpts from books without the consent of the editors and imposed a fine of 300,000 euros in damages.
The fact that we played these text implies that Google has violated copyright court's ruling that prohibits the popular U.S. search engine to continue scanning texts without permission and requires you to pay that amount to the affected publishers denounced him, the French group The Martinière.
The fact that he played "fully" these texts and "made accessible" to everyone through the network means that Google has violated copyright, said the statement published. Therefore, the Tribunal will continue to do so prohibits and warns that will have to pay an additional fine of 10,000 euros for each day they fail to comply.
For its part, the Internet giant has already expressed its disagreement with the judge's decision and announced it would appeal the ruling. According to them, "French readers are now facing the threat of losing access to a wealth of knowledge and thus be placed behind the rest of Internet users. We need to show a limited number of brief excerpts from the book meets with copyright law in France and in the U.S. and improving access to books. If readers are able to search and find books, are more likely to buy and read these books. "
New setback
This court decision is a new setback to U.S. portal project called Google Books to which aims to create a massive digital library. The project was prompted by the Google agreement reached with publishers and authors associations of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, which allows you to display on the Internet from millions of books and sell digital copies of them, but that is still pending approval by U.S. judicial authorities.
Google already has scanned and cataloged on the Internet about a million books whose copyrights have expired or are nearing completion.
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