Google was once again dismissed Friday, May 6 by the Belgian court in a case the opponent to publishers of newspapers, which accused him of violating their copyrights by distributing unauthorized their articles on its Google News service. The Court of Appeal in Brussels confirmed the broad outlines of a trial at first instance in February 2007.
Copiepresse attacked by the association, which defends the interests of the Francophone Belgian press the European media was Google, at the time, was convicted of rape of copyright. He had been sentenced to withdraw from all its sites, and in particular its Google News portal, all articles, photographs and graphic representations of members of Copiepresse, such as daily Le Soir and La Libre Belgique.
Google had then ceased to reference this content but had appealed. The court rejected on Friday the bulk of its arguments. In a first reaction, Copiepresse has "welcomed" the confirmation of the trial decision and said "hope that Google will [it] the intelligence to seek a fair solution to end this situation." Google said, for his part, Case study "to identify possible measures," including the opportunity to go to the Supreme Court, reaffirming his belief that Google News complies with the copyright.
"We believe the listing of titles with brief and direct links to sources is not only legal but also encourages users to read newspapers online" and it is a "common practice of search engines" , argued one of his spokesman, Al Verney. He also assured that Google will "continue to work with publishers to enable them to make money from online distribution of their information." 
Copiepresse attacked by the association, which defends the interests of the Francophone Belgian press the European media was Google, at the time, was convicted of rape of copyright. He had been sentenced to withdraw from all its sites, and in particular its Google News portal, all articles, photographs and graphic representations of members of Copiepresse, such as daily Le Soir and La Libre Belgique.
Google had then ceased to reference this content but had appealed. The court rejected on Friday the bulk of its arguments. In a first reaction, Copiepresse has "welcomed" the confirmation of the trial decision and said "hope that Google will [it] the intelligence to seek a fair solution to end this situation." Google said, for his part, Case study "to identify possible measures," including the opportunity to go to the Supreme Court, reaffirming his belief that Google News complies with the copyright.
"We believe the listing of titles with brief and direct links to sources is not only legal but also encourages users to read newspapers online" and it is a "common practice of search engines" , argued one of his spokesman, Al Verney. He also assured that Google will "continue to work with publishers to enable them to make money from online distribution of their information."
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