AFP sues Google?

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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.

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Google, as well as any other search engine routinely caches copyrighted images. Heck, our own browsers routinely cache copyrighted images. Theoretically, generating web pages with " < img src="" > " tags that include copyrighted sources is less of an offence than keeping a copyrighted image on your hard drive (w/o) permission.

But then, there are always libraries... They let people read a book THEY HAVE NOT PAID MONEY FOR! We should sue them immediately....