Tag archive: Copiepresse

In one of the odder stories of the weekend, a misunderstanding between a Belgian newspaper and Google has, once again, turned into a public spat. The AP reports that “La Capitale” claimed on its Website on Friday that Google had begun “boycotting” it and other members of Copiepresse in what it claimed was retaliation over a copyright infringement lawsuit. In 2006, the newspapers sued Google for including their search… Read More

From an intellectual property perspective, it’s not easy being a search engine. Only a little more than a year ago, Google was fighting with a pornographer over dirty thumbnails. Now, Belgian newspapers are taking issue with Google’s caching of their content, and demanding big bucks. The Belgian copyright defense group Copiepresse has actually been chasing Google since April 2006 over the way it caches newspaper content for… Read More

One of Google's most visible services, Google News, has been dealt a blow by European courts, as a Belgian court ruled (PDF) that Google may not reproduce extracts from a series of Belgian newspapers on its Google News service. The case was brought by Copiepresse, which manages copyright and distribution for a number of Belgium's French- and German-language newspapers; previously, Copiepresse has also demanded Yahoo stop… Read More