French court rules against Google in copyright case

SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. appeals court ordered YouTube on Wednesday to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violent riots in parts of the Middle East and death threats to the actors. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a lawsuit filed against YouTube by an actress who appeared briefly in the 2012 video that led to rioting and deaths because of its negative portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad.

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.

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

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.

President Francois Hollande promised Thursday to force French companies to pay a 75% levy on salaries over a €1-million after his plan to tax individuals was rejected as confiscatory by the country’s constitutional court. Mr. Hollande made the surprise announcement in a “moment of truth” television interview he hopes will reverse record low approval ratings for a French head of state.

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.