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

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

Another side of it is freedom of linking. So far, there has not been a prcedent that would state that I am not allowed to put an " < a href = "url" > " tag into my/b> HTML page for an arbitrary publically available URL.

Are they saying that cema should pay them for saying "Here is a link from AFP, in which they accuse Google of stealing their information"?

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

Argh... sorry for missed < /b>.

[cema.livejournal.com]

It may come to that.