The issue of whose news content belongs to whom could get serious judicial review in a 17.5 million lawsuit brought against the search engine giant Google. The French news agency , Agence France Presse (AFP) , is suing Google News for including their headlines, story leads and thumbnail graphics on the site's news summary pages. AFP alleges they asked Google to refrain from the practice, but the site has not complied. The basis for the suit is that AFP sells its content via a subscription . They allege Google News copies their content and provides it free in the form of a short summary. The suit was filed at the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia on Thursday.
The issue of whose news content belongs to whom could get serious judicial review in a 17.5 million brought against the search engine giant Google. The French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) is suing Google News for including their headlines, story leads and on the site's news summary pages. AFP alleges they asked Google to refrain from the practice, but the site has not complied. The basis for the suit is that AFP sells its content via a . They allege Google News copies their content and provides it free in the form of a short summary. The suit was filed at the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia on Thursday.
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