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Commenters24/02/2010
Google faces European Competition enquiry
The European Commission is looking into complaints about Google’s behaviour, the company has revealed.
The complaints were made by UK price comparison site Foundem, French legal search engine ejustice.fr, and Microsoft’s Ciao
10/02/2010
US Justice Department Rejects Google Book Settlement
The US Justice Department determined that copyright and antitrust issues haven’t been adequately addressed in the latest proposed settlement between Google and authors and publishers in the ongoing copyright infringement suit against the online giant.
20/12/2009
A court in France found Google guilty of copyright infringement for its unauthorized scanning of French books. Under the ruling, the company is liable for €300,000 (about US $427,000) plus €10,000 ($14,300) per day until Google removes all of the material in question from its French index and site. The ruling affects about 80,000 copyrighted books scanned in France.’
08/01/10
Authors want out of Google Books settlement in Canada
Online petition begun in Canada: Web giant scans, indexes books
http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2009/12/20/french-court-finds-google-guilty-over-book-scanning/