The Copiepresse association which represents newspapers in
Belgium is now pressuring Yahoo to stop offering copyrighted
materials from the publications.
Copiepresse won a court victory against Google last year, forcing
the search provider to remove all data from the newspapers'
websites from its cache. Google consequently stopped linking to all
Belgium newspapers on its Google News service.
Google has appealed against the court ruling, arguing that it only
provides summaries of Copiepress content accompanied by a source
referral and the author's name. This would put the practice within
the boundaries of local copyright law.
A judge is expected to rule on Google's appeal later this
month.
Microsoft reported that is in talks with Copiepresse over its
caching and linking practices.
Yahoo is under fire for offering 'copyrighted materials'
from Belgian publications