Brief: Google Book Search violates French copyright law
Google’s preferred way of indexing information—doing it without permission, relying on fair use or fair dealing laws—has run into yet another spot of trouble in Western Europe. A French court has just ruled that the advertising giant must pay €300,000 in damages to a French publishing group for scanning, indexing, and displaying snippets of its work as part of Google Book Search. The terrifically useful Book Search tool has come under attack around the world on grounds that the snippets and searchability it provides makes it too easy for readers to extract particular facts, passages, or recipes from books—after which they may not need to purchase a copy.
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Brief: Google Book Search violates French copyright law
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