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Major publishers informed Google Thursday of "brutally" exploiting France's scholastic heritage as they fired a tribunal challenge to the Internet giant's steer to scan digital copies of books and put extracts online.
Publishing house La Martiniere
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The trial hats a threeyear challenge apt what publishers say namely the network giant's 2005 plan to establish a large online library without prior acceptance.
"It's one anarchic way of brutally stockpiling French heritage
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"Digitizing is forgery," he joined. "Once it is digitized, you can't undo it."
Colin argued that the case, which targets Google's French unit, should be tried under regional decree for the publishers
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The publishers likewise argue that Google's massive profits are "parasitic," as they were generated from sponsored links which are presented to web surfers searching because copyrighted books.
Google's lawyer argued that the firm is not creating a library
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"Google is not a philanthropic team; it is a commercial tight, merely that does not average it is guilty of unlawful deeds," said Alexandra Neri, who argued that publishers do not hold the rights to electronic copies of the books.
The court expects to reach a decision by December 18.
The French hearing comes after the California enterprise struck a handle with lyricist and publisher groups in the United States earlier this year, granting it to copy books for the Internet.
Germany has disapproved a intended settlement, which Google reached with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers Inc among others last annual, mentioning Google could digitize paperbacks by German authors without their consent.
Google has by far scanned about 10 million books through deals with libraries, publishers and authors but not all with approval from rightsholders and outofprint books which are hard to find.
Google argues that scanning and promulgating millions of books online makes access to message aboard the web more democratic.
($1=.6790 Euro) (Editing by David Cowell)