Google fined $14,300 a day

A Paris court has ruled that Google Inc’s expansion into digital books breaks France’s copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet

search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets.
Besides being fined the equivalent of $14,300 for each day in violation, Google was ordered to pay euro300,000 ($430,000) in damages and interest to French publisher La Martiniere, which brought the case on behalf of a group of French publishers.

Google attorney Alexandra Neri said the company would appeal.
The decision erects another legal barrier that may prevent Google from realizing its 5-year-old goal of scanning all the world’s books into a digital library accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. READ MORE…..

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