Fri, 18 Dec 2009
Paris - A Paris court on Friday found Google guilty of copyright infringement for having digitized thousands of books without permission. It ordered the company to pay300,000 euros (432,000 dollars) in fines and damages to the French publisher La Martiniere, who had brought the case to court three years ago.
The court also ordered the US company to pay an additional 10,000 euros for each day the books or extracts taken from them remained in its database and barred Google from continuing to digitize French books.
Google said immediately that it would appeal the decision.
La Martiniere had demanded fines of 15 million euros and 100,000 euros for every day the court order is not carried out. Google had digitized several thousand of the publisher's books and made them available on the internet.
It was not clear what effect, if any, this judgment would have on Google's plans to create an enormous virtual library of all the world's books.
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