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Google found guilty of illegal digitize books

The Paris court found Google in violation of French law in the digitization of books and ordered the company to pay $14,300 (€ 10,000) fine on a daily basis until, until illegal digital copies of books will not be removed from the databases of the search giant. In addition, the French publisher La Martiniere, representing a group of companies should be compensated in the amount of $430 thousand Counsel Google has already announced appeal from the court, which sets the next barrier of 5-year plan involving the digitization of millions of books and creating an online library.U.S. regulators to oppose Google similar activities in the U.S. because they believe that another promising market for digital books will be violated competitive conditions and copyrights. Protests were filed and Germany.

However, while the French business has relatively little impact on the reputation of Google. On Friday, its shares rose $3.86 to U.S. $597.8. Yet the ruling is a reminder that the ambitions of the company in other areas in addition to Internet search experience fears about the growing influence of one of the biggest players in high-tech sector. The French association of publishers, of course, remained satisfied with the outcome of the case. “It shows Google, that they are not the kings of the world and can not do what they please,” – said president of Syndicat National de l’Edition Eyroll Serge (Serge Eyrolles). According to his information, Google is scanned at 100 thousand French books, and 80% of them are protected by copyright. Nevertheless, publishers do not refuse to cooperate with the company, provided that it “stop playing with them and will respect the intellectual property rights”.

Responsible for digitization projects in France, Philippe Colombo (Philippe Colombet) disagreed with the decision of the judiciary : “French readers now will lose access to much of the knowledge and will be placed in an unequal footing with other Internet users. We believe that the demonstration of limited portions of the text books did not violate either the French or American law and improving access to books.” Colombo did not answer the question of whether Google would remove digital copies of the database will either pay the fine imposed by a court to review the decision. Outside of the republic’s verdict should not have on users of services of the company virtually no influence. The works are translated into digital form endorsed by the publishers, will also remain intact, in France, including.

According to Colombo, he does not know exact numbers, but Google is scanned over 10 million books worldwide since 2004, including 2 million with the permission of 30 thousand publishers. About 9 thousand are located in Europe. Another 2 million are no longer subject to copyright protection. Of the remaining millions of books shows only fragments in order to avoid these lost lawsuits. Earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Sarkozy) has proclaimed a national priority digitizing libraries, film and music archives of the country, as well as other heritage for such purpose, $1 billion consortium of technology companies have already committed for the program, but the results will follow only after three year.

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• physorg.com