Google, Belgian Newspapers Settle Copyright Link Dispute
Posted: 12/13/2012 | By: Stephanie Bodoni | Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) reached a deal with
Belgian newspaper publishers, resolving a six-year copyright
battle that had blocked the owner of the world’s most-used
search engine from publishing links to local newspapers.
“We turn the page, we end the litigation and we’re starting afresh with a business partnership,” Thierry Geerts, managing director of Google Belgium, told reporters on a conference call today. “That’s the way we would like to work with publishers all over the world, that we can sit together and think together about how we can embrace the digital future.”
“We turn the page, we end the litigation and we’re starting afresh with a business partnership,” Thierry Geerts, managing director of Google Belgium, told reporters on a conference call today. “That’s the way we would like to work with publishers all over the world, that we can sit together and think together about how we can embrace the digital future.”