Google books loses in French court

After the earlier setback for Google’s plan to scan millions of books a Paris court has now ruled that Google  is breaking French law with its policy of digitizing books, handing the U.S. Internet giant a euro10,000 ($14,300)-a-day fine until it rids its database of the literary extracts. A judge also ordered Google to pay euro300,000 ($430,000) in damages and interest to French publisher La Martiniere, which brought the case on behalf of a group of French publishers.

The attorney for Google, Alexandra Neri, said Google plans to appeal the decision.

via Paris court rules against Google in copyright case over online publication of books — latimes.com.

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