Brussels, Sept 23: The US Internet portal Google today posted on its Belgian websites an earlier copyright ruling by a Belgian court that went against the giant online information provider.
The Belgian Tribunal had yesterday ordered Google to post the judgement, which appeared today on the search engine's "google.Be" site and its information site "news.Google.Be".
On September 5, a court of first instance ordered Google news to stop reproducing content from French-language and German-language newspapers in Belgium on its Belgian site.
The Californian group, under threat of one-million-euro-a-day fines, more or less complied with that ruling, although there was some grumbling about its archive section.
Google was also liable to pay another half a million euros per day if it failed to publish the ruling on its Belgian site continuously for five days.
Google lawyers had called that decision "completely disproportionate".
A new hearing on the more substantive issue of publishing material is scheduled for November 24.
Bureau Report
