Agence France Presse (AFP) has sued Google for its Google News service. The company says that Google's online news aggregator is unauthorised grabbing content from AFP's website. This included AFP photographs, news headlines and story snippets.
AFP demands Google to pay a damage compensation of at least $17.5 million and to stop displaying AFP content on Google News.
Re: Agence France Presse sues Google News (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, March 19 2005 @ 15:43:16 CET
What is news worthy in France other than their broken airplaines, airports that fall down, a medical system that REALLY knows how to take care of old people, 10% unemployment, little school girls than can't observe their religion, jew bashing, their oil interests in Iraq, bla bla bla. I presume they are embarrased to have their news aggrigated in an international forum.
Re: Agence France Presse sues Google News (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, March 19 2005 @ 17:45:40 CET
I've been reading Google News for many years, I've never read any AFP articles there, and I've never even heard of Agence France Press. Sounds like some little outfit angling for a lucrative settlement.
