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Your Rights Online: Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation
Posted by CmdrTaco on 08:19 AM -- Wednesday February 14 2007
from the de-index-belgium-in-retaliation dept.

schmiddy writes

"A court in Brussels, Belgium, has just found Google guilty of violating copyright law with its Google News aggregator. According to the ruling, Google News' links and brief summaries of news sources violates copyright law. Google will be forced to be $32,600 for each day it displayed the links of the plaintiffs. Although Google plans to appeal, this ruling could have chilling effects on fair use rights on the web in the rest of Europe as well if other countries follow suit."

This is, of course, a dupe of this story from Tuesday, although it references different articles and gets the actual amount of the damages right. But it manages to be worse than the original:

  1. The defendant was not "Google News", but Google the corporation. "Google News" does not really exist as a legal "person".
  2. Google was not "found guilty" of anything. This was a civil, not a criminal case.
  3. The suit was not just in reference to Google News, but to all of its web search capability.
  4. And, of course, a grammar error: "Google will be forced to be $32,600 for each day..." What an interesting concept. Could Google choose to be a stack of 32,600 dollar bills? Or would it have to be Euro notes?

Just another day in the life of Slashdot's premier editor. At least pudge reads his email.

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  • I want to be a stack of 32,600 dollar bills. Then I would be popular.

    • I would prefer to be a stack of 32 600. euros. Because then I would be colourful, and valued more. (By about $10k.) ;)

      P.S., does anyone know if its possible to type the Euro symbol into this slashdot interface? It doesn't seem to accept symbols outside of those found on the standard, QWERTYUIOP keyboard. When I preview, the symbols show up as a blank space.
      • I think that the only way to do it is to escape it, as €. Let's see...

        €

        Yep, that works.

        HTML entities reference [w3schools.com].
        • Last time I tried those, they didn't work.

          Tries here:
          € © ±

          Hmmm. Not all of them worked. Interesting. Probably why I didn't perceive them working, because the hearts one that I tried (my usual attempt) didn't. So I tried just pasting the euros symbol into the box, which works most everywhere else, but not here.
          I don't see the hearts option listed in the ISO 8859-1 symbol entities listed on that page. Probably explains why it didn't work; it's not supported.

          Interesting. Thank
      • Use the html character entity € like this: €

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by dthable ( 163749 )
        The £ is also colorful and worth even more. I just didn't want to make myself out to be more than I am.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ncc74656 ( 45571 ) *
        Let's try Alt-0128......that didn't work. Someone else said €...€...that works.

        Alt-0228...ä...works. Alt-0246...ö...works. Alt-0252...ü...works. Alt-0223...ß...works.

        Alt-0163...£...works. Alt-0162......doesn't work. ¢......doesn't work either, so the cents sign is right out. Alt-0169...¥...works.

        Looks like /. is rather hit-or-miss as to what characters it'll take.

      • Who f'ing cares! They work at multiply! ;-)

        What's everyone doing over here at the old clubhouse anyway? ;-)

        • Threaded discussions, among other things. :-)

          And, apparently, less gratuitous profanity. :-) Please leave it there.
  • Was this the best of the word "Belgium" in a dupe? And did it come with any ashes?

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