Three French publishers, Gallimard, Flammarion and Albin Michel, issued a summons for counterfeiting U.S. giant Google which they accuse the wild digitization of thousands of titles under his proposed universal library. Wednesday, May 11 revealed by the magazine Livres Hebdo, the address was issued on May 6 at the High Court of Paris.
It is the French subsidiary of Google and the same assignment will be sent to the parent. The judge must now set a timetable and it will be the American company to provide the conclusions and answers, "he added. The Internet giant said Wednesday was "surprised to receive this new assignment that we are currently looking into, even though we are already working with the French publishers for some time to find ways to increase audiences and revenue streams for publishers, authors and booksellers.
" "We remain in any case convinced of the legality of Google Book Search and its conformity with French laws and international copyright," he added. The three editors demanding 9.8 million euros in damages to the search engine for scanning without permission of 9797 pounds. This figure "is a flat fee of 1,000 euros per digitized work that publishers have the rights.
We limited ourselves to those we were sure they had been reproduced, "said the legal department of the largest French independent publisher that celebrates its centenary this year. This figure also changed every day since Google continues to scan works, it adds. PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED In France, after several years of litigation, the search engine, sued by the group La Martiniere and the Syndicat National de l'Edition (SNE) has already been convicted on 18 December 2009 for infringement by the Paris Court.
In the U.S., he also suffered a setback in March 2011, the settlement between Google and U.S. authors and publishers have been Retoque by the New York federal judge, Denny Chin during a joint trial. Hundreds of objections had been raised against this regulation, including the NIS, the Ministry of Culture and French Ministries of Justice and the American, German and many authors and publishers.
C ' is the same American court in 2010 that provided the three French publishers list of works digitized by Google. Gallimard identified in this listing 4302 titles, Flammarion, 2950 and Albin Michel 2545, Livres Hebdo said. Hachette Livre (Lagardère Group) has signed on to its share in November 2010 a memorandum of agreement with Google that sets the conditions for the digitization of works by him in French exhausted whose rights are controlled by the leading French and Second World .
Google has pledged to withdraw from its base all Hachette titles that do not wish to see included in this program. CEO and Chairman of the NIS Gallimard, Antoine Gallimard, ruled that the agreement represented a decline "unprecedented" Google. Challenged in Tech News Buzz around the gigantic digitization program search engine takes the United States in partnership with university libraries.
Google has already digitized some 12 million works without the permission of the publishers and against the advice of rights holders. 
It is the French subsidiary of Google and the same assignment will be sent to the parent. The judge must now set a timetable and it will be the American company to provide the conclusions and answers, "he added. The Internet giant said Wednesday was "surprised to receive this new assignment that we are currently looking into, even though we are already working with the French publishers for some time to find ways to increase audiences and revenue streams for publishers, authors and booksellers.
" "We remain in any case convinced of the legality of Google Book Search and its conformity with French laws and international copyright," he added. The three editors demanding 9.8 million euros in damages to the search engine for scanning without permission of 9797 pounds. This figure "is a flat fee of 1,000 euros per digitized work that publishers have the rights.
We limited ourselves to those we were sure they had been reproduced, "said the legal department of the largest French independent publisher that celebrates its centenary this year. This figure also changed every day since Google continues to scan works, it adds. PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED In France, after several years of litigation, the search engine, sued by the group La Martiniere and the Syndicat National de l'Edition (SNE) has already been convicted on 18 December 2009 for infringement by the Paris Court.
In the U.S., he also suffered a setback in March 2011, the settlement between Google and U.S. authors and publishers have been Retoque by the New York federal judge, Denny Chin during a joint trial. Hundreds of objections had been raised against this regulation, including the NIS, the Ministry of Culture and French Ministries of Justice and the American, German and many authors and publishers.
C ' is the same American court in 2010 that provided the three French publishers list of works digitized by Google. Gallimard identified in this listing 4302 titles, Flammarion, 2950 and Albin Michel 2545, Livres Hebdo said. Hachette Livre (Lagardère Group) has signed on to its share in November 2010 a memorandum of agreement with Google that sets the conditions for the digitization of works by him in French exhausted whose rights are controlled by the leading French and Second World .
Google has pledged to withdraw from its base all Hachette titles that do not wish to see included in this program. CEO and Chairman of the NIS Gallimard, Antoine Gallimard, ruled that the agreement represented a decline "unprecedented" Google. Challenged in Tech News Buzz around the gigantic digitization program search engine takes the United States in partnership with university libraries.
Google has already digitized some 12 million works without the permission of the publishers and against the advice of rights holders.
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