Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Case

Follow up to previous postings on a legal dispute between a group of Belgian newspaper sites and Google over removal of copyrighted materials from the search engine index, news today that the court reaffirmed its decision against Google.

  • Google Official Blog: “Here’s a quick summary of the case: Copiepresse represents a number of newspapers in Belgium. It sued Google last August claiming that our search engine and news site breached these publications’ copyright. In September, the court ruled in favor of Copiepresse, ordering us to remove these publishers’ content from both Google.be and Google News. We complied with that order and also posted the ruling to both home pages.”
  • Search Engine Land has additional background on the case and on Google’s response.
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