RSSFrench Google Book Search Suit Grows
By the Betanews Staff | Published October 31, 2006, 12:05 PM
A second publisher group in France has joined a lawsuit against search giant Google in French court over its Google Book Search service. The suit is similar to one brought forth by the US-based Author's Guild and was filed October 24. In the statement, Le Syndicat National de l'Edition (SNE) says it joined Le Martiniire Groupe in its suit against the company because it believes that Google is ignoring intellectual property laws by copying the content of the books.
The original suit was filed in June, of which SNE supported. Both companies object to Google's decision to use an opt-out method when including books in the search. To its defense, Google has maintained that scanning the books is fair use, because only a portion of the text is included within search results.
The French hate it because it wasn't invented in France. That's pretty much "it". Google is American and everything American is evil in France.
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|Chirac is backing a proposal - Quaero - to come up with a EU Google killer. Perhaps this has something to do with these law suits.
It is not that the French are anti american it is that they believe their ways are best and they should be at the centre of things.
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|Just like there way of winning ww2 was to roll over & throw flowers as they entered Paris.
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|People who use Google Book Search are likely to be big fans of books and reading in general, and so have large collections of books (like myself).
People who aren't interested in reading normal books probably won't even know this exists, and won't care if it does!
It seems like an attack on a useful resource from my viewpoint... :-(
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|...Google has maintained that scanning the books is fair use, because only a portion of the text is included within search results.
Funny, but I don't get to do that when I'm at the library — "It's okay Random House, I'm only going to distribute 10% of your book to make a personal profit from; the rest I'll keep for my own collection. Am I buying the book you ask? Oh hale nah!"
Right. It's only a matter of time before books become like music and libraries begin to disappear.
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