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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Google to appeal against news service ruling

Google has vowed to appeal against a Belgian court ruling that threatens its Google News service. The court decided that the service breached the copyright of a group of local newspapers, and Google was forced to remove links to articles in French-language newspapers in Belgium to avoid a €1 million (£675,000) daily fine. The court ruled that Google News's operation "causes the publishers of the daily press to lose control of their websites and their contents". Google described it as a "flawed" decision that would force it to close its news service if it was repeated elsewhere. (Via Media Guardian)

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