Last Friday, Google was ordered by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris for infringement of books published by publisher La Martiniere. It will pay him 300,000 euros in damages.
oogle can no longer scan and distribute works without prior permission of the publishers and authors. The Syndicat National de l'Edition (SNE) and the Society of Men of Letters from France (LDMS) receive them, a symbolic euro from the giant online search. The president said the NIS to be "very proud of this decision. This shows that there is justice that respects our rights." Google is expected to appeal, counsel for the group claiming that the ruling "does not advance the rights of authors, however it is two steps backward for the rights of Internet users access to heritage and French literary world, it puts France back of the pack in the Internet ".