Google to Appeal French Court Ruling on Digital Book Index

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 8, 2010 - 10:50am.

Paris - Google (NASD: GOOG) has appealed a French court ruling that prohibited the company from digitizing French authors' works for inclusion in its massive book index without publishers' permission, Agence France-Presse reported.

In December, a French court found Google liable for copyright infringement for including French works in its book index without prior permission.

Google was also ordered to pay the publisher that brought the suit, Les Editions du Seuil, $430,000 in damages.

Since the case began playing out, the French government has embarked upon creating its own national digital book index, and also proposed a tax on Google's ad revenues -- which would be used to fund the creative arts in the country.

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