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19:17 - February 23, 2011

by Michel Lauwers

Google calls "fair use" cons Copiepresse Crepuscule-depuis-la

First argument the Brussels Court of Appeal in the case between the U.S. search engine for French-language publishers in Belgium.

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UATRE years almost to the day after his conviction at trial for violating the law on copyright, Google Inc. found itself in court this morning in Brussels against Copiepresse, the umbrella organization for editors of daily newspapers French and Belgian germanophone.

lawyers American search engine opened fire argument on appeal. Those of Copiepresse and the SAJ (Copyright Society of Journalists) and Assucopie (company managing the rights of authors of textbooks and scientific), who had joined the cause, will follow on March 14 next .

Retroactive

The origin of the case dates back to January 2006 when the group of Mountain View Google News launches in Belgium. Noting that the titles and excerpts of articles from their newspapers were reproduced on this site without permission from them, Belgian French-language publishers have launched an injunction against Google. In court in February 2007, the American was sentenced to stop reproducing the content in Google News publishers Copiepresse members and to prevent access to these cache contents (archives) on Google Search.
Judgement together with a penalty of 25,000 euros per day of delay in removing disputed content.
Since then, both parties have made contact and tried to negotiate an agreement without result. Copiepresse also launched in May 2008, an action for damages against Google. It estimates the damage suffered by the publishers, because of the unauthorized listing articles in 2006 and 2007, between 32 and 49 million euros. Yesterday
as in 2007, the boards of Google argued the application of the law of the country of origin, in particular the principle of "fair use" law in force across the Atlantic and allows broad exceptions to Copyright. They cited a ruling by France in the case SAIF (Society of visual arts authors) against Google, at first instance in 2008, had approved the application of U.S. law.
Copiepresse In the folder, it would apply because all the activities in question were made in the USA. Including, therefore, copies of extracts from the local press.
They also argued for the use by the Belgian publishers, file "robots.txt", these files with a series of information and commands to search engines at work on the web: using it in , publishers tacitly gave the green light to Google to make extracts. Her advice also mentioned the right to quote, except for review of press, freedom of expression, not to mention the EU directive on e-commerce. "A negative ruling would threaten all SEO services or even cause their extinction," said one of the lawyers. be recalled that the issue here between two very different views of copyright, the "opt out" in force in the United States and the "opt in" choice in the European copyright law: the former offers withdrawal (of content) demand and, inevitably, a posteriori, while the latter requires prior authorization. With
in the background, the eternal debate about creating traffic to the sites listed (or "pumped" by design), opposite to the loss of advertising and content control by newspaper publishers . Except

rebound, the appeal decision could come before the summer.

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