Now France Fines Google For Scanning French Books
from the the-war-on-google dept
With France gearing up to dump another billion dollars at its own anti-Google book scanning project, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that a French court has ruled that Google's book scanning project violates copyright law. It's also fining Google 10,000 euros per day until it removes the books in question. Better solution: just block people from French IPs from accessing Google Books.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Filed Under: book scanning, copyright, fines, france
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Well it's obvious...
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Please Google...
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Re: Please Google...
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If blocked they just go around.
Like I'm right now, Google doesn't work with proxies heavily used, and frankly I don't care that much.
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Another two words: Fair Use.
That is all.
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I hear google offerd 1$ per item
hey
sarkozy ....NO ONE CARES ABOUT FRANCE, even french canadians want nothing to do with you
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just boycott French products
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Not a solution
How does that change the fact its still illegal to for Google to scan the books? It's not showing unauthorized books that is being fined.
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Obvious bias
So please grow up from your "Google good", "publishers wrong", "stupid French" and "I am not going to think a lot about this, so much easier to entertain my main US readership for a good laugh" that is so represented by your last sentence. As you often pointed out, the devil's in the details.
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Re: just boycott French products
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They must be crazy
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Re: Obvious bias
Not at all. We write good things about the French when they do good things. I have nothing against the French at all, and actually have plenty of good things to say about France and the French people.
On the one side, France's government/cultural institutions with their anti-Google stance on their own book scanning project. On the other side, the judicial system (you know, _different_ from the government) that ruled on a spat between Google and some french publishers, because that's the usual way to resolve legal disagreement. Why make a link about two points that may seem related but concern different bodies ?
Because they're both about France and both about Google's book scanning project. So it would actually be negligent on my part not to mention both together.
Which might be much more related to some kind of disagreement between Google and US publishers which you seem to have forgotten about, blinded by your bias.
What "bias" do you speak of? I've been just as critical of US publishers and their attacks on Google. It's got nothing to do with bias.
So please grow up from your "Google good", "publishers wrong", "stupid French" and "I am not going to think a lot about this, so much easier to entertain my main US readership for a good laugh" that is so represented by your last sentence.
None of those statements are necessarily true or reflective of my views.
I could just as easily ask you to grow up from your simplistic "Techdirt must hate the French" "Techdirt must love Google" bias in your comment. But that would be ridiculous, right? So why throw that in my direction?
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Bias there is, but not in the article
And that comment about Nazi-occupied France? I'm sure you can find anti-French websites here and there, so please don't come and sully up the comment section of an open-minded website.
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