The Internet search company Google on Thursday sat on the bench of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris for an alleged crime of "hacking" denounced by French publishers before scanning and made freely available on the network of many of his books.
The complaint was lodged by the publisher The Martinière in June 2006 to verify that Google had digitized and posted on the Internet several of his titles in a process conducted in U.S. libraries.
Subsequently, he joined the National Union of Publishers (SNE), which groups five hundred publishing houses, and the Society of People of Letters (SGDL).
In its digitization process works to create a World Digital Library, Google included some that are subject to payment of copyright and, in that, underlying the claim of the complainants.
The head of the Martinière Hervé de Martinière denounced "this sort of arrogance that makes your books and take without asking digitize.
According to publishers, Google has digitized more than 100,000 French securities, in an agreement it signed with the great French libraries to use their funds.
The lawyer claimed that publishers stop digitizing books French under a penalty of 100,000 euros per day (147,972 dollars) and sought damages worth 15 million euros (22 million).
He said Google is "parasitizing" the work of publishers with a practice "unlawful and dangerous and harmful to publishers."
The defense focused much of his speech to try to answer the French court's competence to judge events that are occurring in America.
Moreover, the software giant's lawyers noted that concerns the digitization of short excerpts of works to develop a search tool, which they claim is covered by the right to quote and not have to pay royalties.
The verdict will be delivered on Dec. 18, but in the meantime, the editors do not rule out opening talks with Google as they just did their U.S. counterparts.
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