Recently, the Belgian Court of First Instance ordered Google to both cease excerpting snippets of text from French and German-speaking papers; and that Google post the injunction order on the Google website.

Google contintues to scan thousands of news outlets and books and has done so since 2002.

The Belgian court was unmoved by Google’s defense that the snippet copying was intended to drive traffic to the originating news site. Google found the order to post on the Google website the Belgian website “disporportionate and unnecessary”.

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