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[April 13, 2007]

AFP, Google Finally Agree on Copyright

(AllAfrica.com English Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Johannesburg, Apr 13, 2007 (Business Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) --INTERNATIONAL news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has settled its two-year copyright infringement lawsuit against Google.


This means the world's largest search engine will in future be allowed to post news and pictures from AFP journalists, it was reported on media analysis site editorsblog.com, this week.

It was not made clear whether Google would be made to pay for the service, as a newspaper or magazine would have to.


While many companies spend huge amounts of money to improve their rankings on the world's number one website AFP requested that Google refrain from linking to its content. In March 2005 the agency demanded that Google remove all AFP-related content demanding $17,5m in damages.

The case was brought to the district court of Columbia where it was argued that Google was accessing content without permission and that Google had continued to breach its copyright.

The news agency said in 2005 that it had asked Google to stop linking to its content but the search engine had not done so.

Editorsblog said that if Google was going to pay, this could be seen as a Google acknowledgement that, "though it believes its practices to be legal, they may not yet stand up to traditional media laws. On the other hand, if the settlement was an AFP concession, it could mean a bolstering of Google's defence that fair use law protects Google News."

Copyright 2007 Business Day. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).

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