Google is at the forefront of many legal battles these days, from data protection over antitrust to intellectual property (IP) litigation. This article highlights some of the IP challenges that Google is currently facing in Europe. The outcome of these legal conflicts may shape e-commerce initiatives as well as prompt legislative changes in the near future. Google v Copiepresse has been one of the most high-profile copyright sagas seen in Europe in recent years. Copiepresse is an association of several major Belgian newspaper publishers. Google included several of these publishers' newspaper articles both on its 'Google News' page and in the cache of its search engine service. Whereas Google News only included the headlines and the first few sentences of these newspaper articles, the cache of Google's search engine contained full reproductions of these articles.
August 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
The long-running copyright dispute between Google and Copiepresse, the association of Belgian newspaper publishers, is set to resume in the courts next month. Geert Glas and Peter Van Dyck look at the IP challenges Google is currently facing in Europe
Google is at the forefront of many legal battles these days, from data protection over antitrust to intellectual property (IP) litigation.
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