p2pnet - rss feed: Google sued by France’s AFP
p2pnet.net News:- Agence France-Presse is suing Google News because, AFP states, Google includes agency pix, stories and headlines without permission.
Now it’s demanding damages of around $17.5 million and an order barring Google News from displaying AFP copyrighted material, reports the Search Engine Journal, which goes on:
“The basis around the law suit is that Agence France Presse sells subscriptions to its new content. Google News however crawls photos and news stories from AFP, posts the stories on Google News, and then Google News readers clcik over to the AFP site.
“Although this may sound good for traffic to AFP and the possibility of selling new subscriptions, one problem seems to be that Google News indexes the entire news story from a site, unlike RSS syndication which only indexes an excerpt.”
The story says according to Reuters, “Without AFP’s authorization, defendant is continuously and willfully reproducing and publicly displaying AFP’s photographs, headlines and story leads on its Google News web pages,” says the AFP lawsuit.
Agence France-Presse has apparently informed Google that Google News isn’t authorized to use AFP’s copyrighted material and requested Google to cease and desist from infringing its copyrighted work, adds the Search Engine Journal.
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Search Engine Journal - Google News Sued by Agence France Presse, March 19, 2005
March 19th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
Now it’s demanding damages of around $17.5 million and an order barring Google News from displaying AFP copyrighted material, reports the Search Engine Journal, which goes on:
as you can see, this is purely profit motivated. I mean come on, 17.5 Million. They know that google can pay that is why they are after the site.
March 19th, 2005 at 6:26 pm
All they have to do to prevent this is to add google to the robots.txt of their site, this is just for profit.
March 21st, 2005 at 5:50 am
I don’t know how many times I’ve clicked on a link in Google News only to be brought to a ‘must subscribe’ page of the New York Times or the Washington Post (for instance)….I’m sure, if the AFP wanted to do the same, then they could.