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12.07.05
J'Accuse! Google Draws Ire From Europe
 By
David Utter
Publishers associated with the European Publishers Council have had enough of
search engines sponging off their provided content and making billions without
sharing the wealth.
Fair use isn't fair to publishers, the message goes. An AP story
reported how publishers in Europe have taken a very public stance behind Agence
France-Presse (AFP) and its lawsuit against Google for copyright violations.
The EPC delivered some incendiary remarks directed at Google by name and search
engines in general during remarks given at a conference in Brussels:
"The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional
permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over
the years," said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Publishers
Council...
"It is fascinating to see how these companies 'help themselves' to copyright-protected
material, build up their own business models around what they have collected,
and parasitically, earn advertising revenue off the back of other people's content,"
he said.
"This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term."
AFP's complaints began in March, and it has sued Google for $17.5 million in damages
caused by Google News aggregating AFP content provided to sites that subscribe
to AFP. Google in turn has said it removes sites from Google News upon request,
which it has done for AFP, but most prefer to be included in the service.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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