Google Loses Belgian Court Fight

Google has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop reproducing news articles from papers within the country for Google News. If other courts follow suit, one of the most popular services for the company outside of search could be in jeopardy. Belgian courts first ruled in September that the site must remove such content. Tuesday's ruling upheld that injunction, as well as extending the order to Yahoo's French site. Fines of $32,000 per day would be levied if the order were not followed.

While Copiepresse, the publishing organization that brought the suit, sad it was satisfied with the outcome, Google expressed disappointment and said that it will look into an appeal of the judgment. In any case, the group that brought the suit said that it would still consider a licensing agreement, although it was up to Google to approach Copiepresse.