Belgian court demands that Google publish rules of conduct
Jan 11, 2024 11:03:40 GMT
Post by account_disabled on Jan 11, 2024 11:03:40 GMT
Google Inc., the company that manages the most famous search engine in the world and also the virtual social network Orkut, refused to obey the demand of a Belgian court and publish the rules of conduct on its websites. Google Inc. called the Belgian decision “unnecessary” and “disproportionate”. The information is from the FindLaw website .
At the beginning of September, the Special Data Belgian court ordered Google to stop publishing content from Belgian newspapers without due payment of fees or formal permission. Local newspaper editors argued that the search site Google brought small photos and excerpts from reports made in that country, which according to them constituted “theft of content production from newspaper websites”.
Google welcomed the decision, which threatened the company, in case of disobedience, with daily fines of US$1.27 million. Gradually and since then, Google has been removing the content of Belgian newspapers from its database.
Now the Court asks Google to post the full rules on its websitesand. The court order came into force this Friday (22/9) and if the company does not comply with it, the stipulated fine is US$634 thousand per day. Steven Langdon, a spokesman for Google Inc, said he expects the problem to be quickly resolved.
“We believe that Google News is completely legal and benefits publishers by redirecting web traffic to those publishers' websites. It is important to remember that we never show anything more than headlines and a few excerpts from the texts”, explains Langdon. “If people want to read the whole story, they have to click on the newspaper’s website.”
Google News, opened in 2002, scans thousands of news services and hierarchizes them under common categories, such as news about the world or sports, for example. Many of these stories feature images, along with two or three sentences of phrases taken from online newspaper news sites.
Experts in internet legislation believe that Google will defend in court that this service encourages the desire to consume news.
At the beginning of September, the Special Data Belgian court ordered Google to stop publishing content from Belgian newspapers without due payment of fees or formal permission. Local newspaper editors argued that the search site Google brought small photos and excerpts from reports made in that country, which according to them constituted “theft of content production from newspaper websites”.
Google welcomed the decision, which threatened the company, in case of disobedience, with daily fines of US$1.27 million. Gradually and since then, Google has been removing the content of Belgian newspapers from its database.
Now the Court asks Google to post the full rules on its websitesand. The court order came into force this Friday (22/9) and if the company does not comply with it, the stipulated fine is US$634 thousand per day. Steven Langdon, a spokesman for Google Inc, said he expects the problem to be quickly resolved.
“We believe that Google News is completely legal and benefits publishers by redirecting web traffic to those publishers' websites. It is important to remember that we never show anything more than headlines and a few excerpts from the texts”, explains Langdon. “If people want to read the whole story, they have to click on the newspaper’s website.”
Google News, opened in 2002, scans thousands of news services and hierarchizes them under common categories, such as news about the world or sports, for example. Many of these stories feature images, along with two or three sentences of phrases taken from online newspaper news sites.
Experts in internet legislation believe that Google will defend in court that this service encourages the desire to consume news.