http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/business/14google.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
This article is important to all of the internet, especially reguarding copyright laws. This might start a trend, or even an industry standard where companys and people can sue google for linking and showing copyrighted material improperly.
I believe that companies should be embracing google in technology rather than fighting them. Google is a huge internet entity, they have all the legal clout in the world. Can some of the smaller companies win monetary gains and a little press? Sure, but working with Google News would probably of been better for the companies. Take for example that a small company's copyrighted material is illegally displayed on Google News, instead of sueing Google, they could work with them. Make google show extra links to their site, increase viewers of their websites and their services. Fighting Google on issues like this will probably end up blacklisting their site from the Google search engine. Which in the long run will end up as a net loss for them.
I do not know the entire story behind this, and it would be hard to find out because i don't speak belgian. But, if google.be was actually displaying copyrighted material and doing it without a care intentionally, this could be the beginning of a series of suits from other people with displayed copyrighted material.
These issues could eventually make their way over to America. Every other search engine and other sites that index websites could have suits to follow.
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Indeed, it would be extremely interesting if those issues came to America...especially with such an adversarial legal system ingrained into our society.
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