{"id":612125,"date":"2009-12-18T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091218\/1101087429.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-18T18:35:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T23:35:01","slug":"now-france-fines-google-for-scanning-french-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612125","title":{"rendered":"Now France Fines Google For Scanning French Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With France gearing up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091215\/1637117371.shtml\">dump another billion dollars<\/a> at its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091209\/0238367261.shtml\">anti-Google<\/a> book scanning project, it shouldn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise that a French court has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8420876.stm\" >Google&#8217;s book scanning project violates copyright law<\/a>.  It&#8217;s also fining Google 10,000 euros per day until it removes the books in question.  Better solution: just block people from French IPs from accessing Google Books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091218\/1101087429.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091218\/1101087429.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091218\/1101087429&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=90384644060d1833862474e44529dd32&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=90384644060d1833862474e44529dd32&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=ARG3gn_5Xkc:ednLUhuu-HY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=ARG3gn_5Xkc:ednLUhuu-HY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=ARG3gn_5Xkc:ednLUhuu-HY:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/ARG3gn_5Xkc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With France gearing up to dump another billion dollars at its own anti-Google book scanning project, it shouldn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise that a French court has ruled that Google&#8217;s book scanning project violates copyright law. It&#8217;s also fining Google 10,000 euros per day until it removes the books in question. Better solution: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zeZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}