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Bloomberg: Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers

Monday, 9 May 2011, 19:53

"The Court of Appeal in Brussels on May 5 upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that forced Google to remove links and snippets of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers from Google.com and Google.be."

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 Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 08:39 0

Google has appealed against the February ruling that it violated Belgian copyright law. An appeal hearing is scheduled for July 17, but Google and Copiepresse are negotiating first.

 Monday, 7 May 2007, 20:57 0

Jason Fry says Copiepresse’s fight against Google is "a bid to turn back time and declare a do-over on the basics of search engines — a quixotic effort that flies in the face of the reality of how content is consumed today".

 Friday, 4 May 2007, 09:21 0

The Belgian newspapers are using the “no archive” tag that prevents Google’s from caching their webpages. Google has not signed a license to use the newspapers’ content, and maintains its legal position.

 Thursday, 3 May 2007, 16:41 0

"Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites, the first signs of a thaw in a bitter copyright dispute."