Rules of the French court against Google on the copy book

There are 11 hours 47 minutes, the Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by scanning books and putting the clips online for a legal challenge by the major French publishing houses. Skip related content The court ruled against the French unit of Google, if the group La Martiniere, which argued the checks nerd Editions du Seuil publishing that publishers and authors are losers from the last phase of the digital revolution. Google was ordered to pay € 300,000 (£ 266,600) damages, far less well than 15 million sought by the claimants. It must stop reproduction of the material protected by French publishers, he has dealt not taken. The most popular search engine has announced that he would appeal, but on Friday decision will be implemented immediately, pending further legal action. "We believe that the users of online access to short extracts of works in accordance with copyright law," Google's lawyer, Benjamin Chauffaut said. "Deprived of French online users only much of their literary heritage." Shares of Google rose 2.24 percent to $ 596.19 an executive from 4:15 clock said it was to the verdict before study to comment on business policy influence. La Martiniere, the association of French publishers and authors groups LDMS argued that Google was the use of this heritage, and called the scanning of an act of procreation. "Even if we do not stop the scanning process, it means they can not all of the digitized material more" Yann Colin, La Martiniere lawyer for the Reuters news agency. French fight THE HOUSES 'edition accuses Google to scan books for free, letting users search the content for free, collecting not rec Ettes offset by advertisers, but adequate, the creator and publisher of the original works. Colombet Philippe, head of partnerships for Google Books in France, had no concrete information about how books might be affected, but said in a telephone conference with French, one of the languages most commonly used was the Internet. "More than ever, we are committed to working with publishers in all business areas," he said. As the popularity of electronic readers to win and grow online libraries, businesses and governments are eager to find out mistakes, made the movie companies and music when their content is now online. Politicians including French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been particularly vocal, pushing for a program that large audience, which would partially financed by a loan of large-scale scan. so far Google has 10 million pounds will be scanned through partnerships with libraries. Display snippets of books searchable by copyright and full texts is not copyrighted. Google Books provides access a larger number of works and contributes to the market, "said lawyer Chauffaut. The project was to breathe new life into out-of-print works of praise, but it has attracted more legal action for scanning books without permission of the copyright holder. Google has recently launched a subsidiary in the United States, after lengthy negotiations with authors and publishing houses by the U.S. Authors Guild, which had led the action. The settlement, to follow the action and reward includes the authors, focuses on the books in North America, Britain and Australia have been published, and every book registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. It must to be approved by a U.S. court. (Additional reporting by Thierry Leveque, Editing by Rupert Winchester)