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Google broke copyright law

Attracts big retrospective fine
By INQUIRER staff
Tue Feb 13 2007, 10:46
SEARCH GIANT Google was fined €25,000 for breaking Belgian copyright law for every day since an initial ruling in September, amounting to a whopping €3.45 million.

It published links to newspapers in Belgium without permission, a a Belgian court said. Google was sued by a group of Belgian publishers last September, charged with breaking copyright by listing stories and brief extracts on its news aggregation site.

According to reports, MSN and Yahoo have also heard from m'learned fiends over similar matters. µ

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