AFP sues Google?

[cema]

Agence France Presse has sued Google Inc. (GOOG), alleging the Web search leader includes AFP's photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission.

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"Without AFP's authorization, defendant is continuously and willfully reproducing and publicly displaying AFP's photographs, headlines and story leads on its Google News web pages," AFP charged in its lawsuit.

Should they win, who is going to read them?

Silly sods.

Comments

[a7sharp9.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure they care. Aren't they being paid for in large part (or at least heavily subsidized) by the government, like BBC?

[cema.livejournal.com]

AFP? I don't know.

Of course, they will be read anyway. They provide source pictures and reports for many other news agencies.