Copyright stumble, Google Fined USD 4 Billion

France - Google once again tripped over copyright issues. This time Google Book service that causes the search engine giant is being dragged to court. Google also had to pay a fine worth U.S. $ 430,000 or approximately USD 4 billion.

The lawsuit against Google posted by a French publisher called La Martiniere. The publisher is accused Google had violated copyright by scanning books without permission publications.

A court in Paris and then dropped the penalty to Google for U.S. $ 430,000. The court also gave an additional fine of U.S. $ 14 thousand per day for the books or Google picked quotations. In addition, Google asked to stop the process of digitizing books France.

Quoted from TGdaily, Monday (21/12/2009), Google does not remain silent responding Paris court's decision. This giant will appeal.

Not yet clear whether this lawsuit will be a wedge for Google to realize his ambition, creating a virtual library for all the books in the world.

Some time ago, Google Book service has also been received from the coalition strikes Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon. In 2005, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers also sued Google for copyright infringement accusations. (Faw / fyk)

Losing assembly, Microsoft Will Change Ms.Word

Jakarta - Microsoft is rumored to be making changes to their property Word application. This is done after Microsoft lost a patent dispute with a Canadian company.

Changes that will be Microsoft to continue to sell Microsoft Office, one of their flagship application. As quoted from Wired, Wednesday (23/12/2009), Microsoft has announced it will make the changes shortly after the decision of the trial.

The trial court affirmed the previous decision that requires Microsoft to pay damages up to USD 290 million (approximately USD 2.7 trillion) for violating patents owned I4i, a Canadian-based company. The decision would also block the sale of Microsoft Word began January 11, 2010.

Version of Word which a breach is a Microsoft Word 2007 (part of a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007). Therefore, Microsoft said it will revoke a breach of the features that can be sold in order to keep Office 2007 in full after the date in question.

Patents that relate to the use of extensible markup language (XML) in the manipulation of text on a Word document. This patent dispute case was won by a small software company from Canada, Ltd. I4i.

Despite claims will change Word, Microsoft did not close the possibility of further steps in court. "Although we moved quickly to deal with the issue of injunction (blocking the sale of Microsoft Word-red), we also consider the legal options available," said Kevin Kutz, a spokesman for Microsoft.

Advanced options for Microsoft in the green table, doing new trial before a judge on appeal or submit a review of the United States Supreme Court.
(Wsh / wsh)