As we’ve been watching and reading, Google is still being sued over copyright infringements overseas.
La Martinière filed suit against Google and its French subsidiary in a French court on June 6, accusing the search engine of counterfeiting. It asked the court to stop the search engine from scanning its books, and demanded €1 million (US$1.3 million) in damages. The publisher said Google had illegally copied at least 100 of its copyright works and included them in its Google Book Search without permission.
Google is going to fight this and probably drag in Amazon because of things they’ve done with copying books. But I do wonder if they’re going to just start pointing fingers saying… “they did it first!” This may turn out pretty ugly.
