A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.’s expansion into digital books breaks France’s copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets.
Besides being fined the equivalent of $14,300 for each day in violation, Google was ordered to pay euro300,000 ($430,000) in damages and [...]
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News: French Court Thwarts Google Digital Book Project
December 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Copyright Infringement · copyright laws · digital books · digital library · France · Google · Piracy
News: Counterfeiting Costs Canada Billions
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
Canada trails far behind the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and France by not enacting tougher laws and penalties for selling imported bogus goods, an anti-counterfietting conference heard yesterday.
Lorne Lipkus, of the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network, said a private members’ bill will soon lobby Parliament for expanded copyright laws, seizure rights similar to those that block [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network · copyright laws · counterfeiting laws · Fake Goods · IACC · knockoffs
News: Book pirates in £5bn War of the Internet
November 5th, 2009 No Comments
The stakes are high. On one side are the internet pirates who are offering digital copies of the latest bestsellers such as Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol for free. On the other are the authors and publishers who are determined to stop the £5 billion-a-year UK books market going the way of the music industry, [...]
Tags: amazon · copyright laws · e-books · file sharing · illegal downloads · Internet Piracy · Kindle · The Publilshers Association
