copyright

Google on a war-path with Piracy

Google war Piracy

Mass piracy and copyright violations are a pitiful trend of the Web nowadays. Even internet giants like Google and Microsoft suffer losses because of it. However, they do not confine themselves to only complaining. The fierce fight against copyright infringement has been set by Google, which has by removed millions of URLs from Search.
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Copyright Debates: French Court vs. Google

Copyright Debates

One of the leading French television networks, TF1 sued YouTube and parent company Google for intellectual property abuse. Though French court acquitted YouTube of all charges, motivating the decision by the fact that Google is not responsible for controlling YouTube content. Back in 2008 TF1 wanted Dailymotion and YouTube pay 141 million euros for violation of copyright, but the court ordered the company to cover Google’s legal fees to the sum of 800.000 dollars.
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