Google Ordered To Remove Belgian News
A Belgian court has ordered that Google remove all news stories from Belgian publishers, as well as remove all such items from the Google cache. If Google doesn’t do it within ten days (which, according to the date, might have been yesterday), they face a fine of one million Euros per day.
Order the defendant to withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of Belgian publishers of the French - and German-speaking daily press, represented by the plaintiff, from all their sites (Google News and “cache” Google or any other name within 10 days of the notification of the intervening order, under penalty of a daily fine of 1,000,000.- € per day of delay.
There’s one more interesting clause in the court order: Google must publish “the entire intervening judgement” on the homepage of google.be and news.google.be for five days, or face an additional 500,000 Euro fine. Is that normal? I can’t imagine Google adding several pages of text to a page that has barely twenty words on it. Wouldn’t a link be enough?
(via Information Overload > Findory)
Why? Why Does the Belgian Government want Google to remove its news from its website?
Comment by Joseph | September 17, 2006
What’s next, when you get a parking fine having to drive around for a week with text on your car saying that you parked at the wrong place.
Comment by Sander | September 17, 2006
[…] After reading related materials and doing a search for any other articles on the topic, I really couldn’t find anything explaining *why* the content was forcibly being removed from Google’s database. Only that the government is having the content removed. I’ll post an update if I find any follow-ups on this. (via) […]
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In Spain judges routinely order any guilty paarty in press-related cases to publish the full judgement or at least an agreed excerpt. It happens even on TV.
This is probably true in other european countries as well, and in this case, Google is very likely treated as a publisher that copied content from someone else.
Oh, and also, the judge probably wants to be famous, too…
Comment by Jope | September 18, 2006
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“Wouldn’t a link be enough?” That’s what Google did . Type **dimanche sans voiture “17 septembre” **in Google.be (not news) and check the last reference
Comment by damien | September 18, 2006
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not justice if she is exposed to sky,what
right of privacy remainsa to be observed, sky is not any1 property
Comment by dp | September 25, 2006
[…] You must have read how the Belgian court has ordered Google to remove all news stories from publishers in Belgium. This included removal not only from the results, but also from its cache. You can read more here. http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/09/17/google-ordered-to-remove-belgian-news/ […]
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What’s next, when you get a parking fine having to drive around for a week with text on your car saying that you parked at the wrong place.
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