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AFP Sues Google
Agnece France Presse announced they would be suing search engine Google for their use of AFP news, images, and headlines without permission.
The French news company is seeking $17.5 million in damages resulting from appearing in Google News. The suit was filed last Thursday in Washington, D.C. According to Reuters…
AFP sells subscriptions to its content and does not provide it free. Google News gathers photos and news stories from around the Web and posts them on its news site, which is free to users.
"Without AFP's authorization, defendant is continuously and willfully reproducing and publicly displaying AFP's photographs, headlines and story leads on its Google News web pages," AFP charged in its lawsuit.
AFP said it has informed Google that it is not authorized to use AFP's copyrighted material as it does and has asked Google to cease and desist from infringing its copyrighted work.
This is not the first time Google has been sued because of copywritten material appearing on one of their properties. Recently, nude photograph producer Perfect 10 sued Google because the company's images were appearing results for Google's image search.
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