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: LawPunditParis court rules against Google in book copyright case | The Industry Standard
By Andis Kaulins
"Google's book search project suffered a legal setback in Paris on Friday, as a court ordered it to pay ?300,000 (US$432,000) in damages for breach of copyright, and to stop distributing digital copies of French books to French Internet users without the permission of their publishers.The decision in the case continues a string of anachronistic laws and equally antiquated judicial decisions - especially in France - regarding the exercise of individual rights and freedom of information on the Internet.
That anyone has been damaged to the tune of ?300,000 in the instant case is of course idiotic. Who has ever even heard of the decaying (-45% in 2008) French publisher La Martinière Groupe?
The best way to deal with publishers like this is simply to refuse to buy their books - who needs them?
Full post as published by LawPundit on December 29, 2009 (boomark / email).
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