Belgian Newspapers Sue Google Inc.

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By: Belgian French-language newspapers want the search engine powerhouse Google Inc. to pay up to $77 million in damages for publishing and storing their content without permission.

The newspaper copyright group has summoned Google to appear again before a Brussels court in September that will decide on their claim that they suffered steep financial damages.

Google spokepersons say they can't comment because they haven't received the legal documents.

Last year Google lost a lawsuit filed by the newspapers that forced it to remove headlines and links to news stories posted on its Google News service and stored in its search engine's cache without the copyright owners' permission.

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