It emerged this week that the AFP news agency has filed suit against Google over the online portal's use of copyrighted AFP content for its Google News service.
According to reports, the French agency is seeking around $17.5 million in damages, and a court order preventing Google from displaying AFP headlines, story leads, or photographs.
This is because the Google News site displays the stories that it gathers on the internet free of charge, while AFP has several hundred paying clients, and therefore objects to the free use of its material.
AFP told the Columbia district court at which the case was filed that despite having already asked for its copyrighted content to be removed, Google "continues in an unabated manner to violate AFP's copyrights" by "wilfully reproducing and publicly displaying AFP's photographs, headlines and story leads on its Google News web pages".
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