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After Copiepresse “Boycott,” Google Restores Search of News Sites

in News on July 18, 2011 at 11:40 am PT

Google today stopped its so-called boycott of the Copiepresse newspapers (who had sued it) after they agreed not to enforce copyright infringement fines, but says it doesn’t plan to use such tactics as a matter of practice.
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Google Excludes Belgian Newspapers From Search Index

in News on July 17, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Copiepresse, the consortium of Belgian newspapers that successfully sued Google for copyright infringement, is crying foul today after the search giant removed its member sites not just from Google News, but from its main search index as well. Google claims the move was necessary to comply with decision in the copyright infringment case, but the consortium claims it is simply retaliation over the copyright infringement suit.

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in News on May 4, 2007 at 1:21 pm PT

Your Search– 'Publications With a Grossly Inflated View of Their Own Value'–Has Returned 12 Belgian Newspapers

in News on May 4, 2007 at 5:12 am PT

It’s taken them a while, but Belgian newspaper publishers have finally managed to remember how the Internet works. On Thursday Copiepresse, an association of Belgian, French and German publishers whose contrarian and litigious stand on the benefits of search-engine traffic forced Google to remove its members from Google News in February, said the search engine could once again include them.