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]

This only creates an incentive for every guy running Apache from his basement who is not smart enough to configure robots.txt correctly, but does not like the way his page is indexed by the search engines.

The fine print with exclusions will soon consume the whole space.

[arbat.livejournal.com]

Not if they put the references in the same place where they supposed to be, but provide no auto links. And no quotes. As for the guy with Apache - AFP is unique in that it has enough money to hire lawyers but not enough brains to figure out the value of the free advertising.