Belgian newspapers asks for $77.5 million from Google
A group of Belgian newspapers sued Google and are now asking for 49.2 million euros, around 77.5 million dollars.
Belgian newspapers claims that Google violated copyright laws by reading the publisher’s content and posting it in Google News, caching their content.
Google was sued in 2006 but now in 2008 they still didn’t get to a deal.
Google claims that content in Google News is legal and according to Margaret Boribon (secretary general at Copiepresse), Google failed to accept their claims.
Margaret Boribon said that Belgian publishers are still open to a settlement.