French court rules against Google in copyright case

The search giant must pay $430,000 in damages and interest to a French publisher after making its works available online. PARIS — A Paris court has convicted Google Inc.

Google was ordered to pay $430,000 in damages and interest to the publisher La Martiniere, and to pay 10,000 euros a day until it removes extracts of the French books from its database.

Film maker Roman Polanski won damages on Friday from a French newspaper that photographed him at his Swiss home where he is confined pending extradition proceedings on rape charges.A Paris court convicted French daily Aujourd'hui en France, with its Paris edition Le Parisien, of breaching Polanski's privacy and the right to the use of his image, rights strictly protected by French law.It ordered the newspaper to pay 3,000 euros (4,300 dollars) to him and his wife, the French actress Emmanuelle Seigner.

A Paris court has convicted Google Inc. in a copyright infringement case over online publication of French books. A judge ruled Friday that the U.S. Internet search giant must pay euro300,000 in damages and interest to French publisher La Martiniere.

Google may not scan French books without the permission of the publishers, a court in Paris has ruled. The California Internet giant must pay 300,000 euros in damages to the publishing house that brought the case to court.

A Paris court rules that the U.S. Internet giant is breaking French law with its policy of digitizing books, handing the company a $14,300-a-day fine until it rids its database of the literary extracts.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

In a crushing blow to socialism, wealth redistribution and purveyors of the "fairness doctrine" (as defined here first) everywhere, the French Constitutional Council ruled on Saturday that Hollande's brilliant idea to tax millionaires at a 75% tax rate - a move which has since seen numerous millionaires leave France and move to Belgium - is unconstitutional.

A French court fines Google 300,000 euros and tells it to remove some titles from its archive of digital books.