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Reuters reports Google France was sued by Flach Film, a French film producer, for copyright infringement. They claim their video, "The World According to Bush," was published on Google Video France, and viewed more 50,000 times, before Google removed the video. The French film producer estimates $648,700 in prejudice but Google said "our terms and conditions specify that users (Internet surfers) don't have permission to use videos which they don't own the rights to."
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Former Google France boss Franck Poisson has announced a partnership deal with Yahoo! to provide advertising and search services on Webwag, his new project that allows users to customise their homepage. Webwag will display sponsored links from Yahoo! Search Marketing, as well as launching a web search feature, which enables users to sift through specific selected content, like blogs, as well as the web as a whole. The Webwag service uses mini web windows, called
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Google France has lost an intellectual property dispute after a French court ruled that they may not allow advertisers to tie their text notices to trademarked search terms. In the ruling, the Lower Court of Nanterre ordered Google France to pay Euros 70,000 to two companies that own the rights to certain words. Google France had provoked this situation by selling the use of certain words to advertisers in its ‘AdWords’ program. AdWords allows individuals and companies to put advertisements on Google’s home page - which appear only when a specific search term is typed in. Two travel agencies Luteciel and Viaticum sued Google, after the search engine refused to stop the use of the words in question in AdWords. The disputed words are ‘bourse des vols’ and ‘bourse des voyages’, over which the travel firms claim trademark rights.
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Google's Book Search troubles in France may not be over yet. The National Publishers Union (le Syndicat national de l'Edition) has officially taken La Martinière's side in this debate. The EU has ... launched a virtual library project that is a clear response to Google Book Search. Google can take some comfort in the fact that this project is also encountering difficulties.
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In response, a Google France spokeswoman mentioned that Google is aware of Flach Film’s complaint and that it has already removed the incriminated video from its site. She ... stated that Google’s Terms and Policy forbid users to upload videos that they don’t own legally.
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Agence France Presse is suing Google for $17.5 million for aggregating and extracting headlines and excerpts from AFP stories on its Google News service. Google claims its use of AFP material is protected by fair use laws; AFP denies it.
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