A French Court imposed fine of 300,000 euros on Google in Copyright Case in Which Google was found Guilty for violated French copyright law in digitizing books of French Publisher

The Paris Civil Court stated that Google has violated Copyright Law by scanning complete books of French Author.

Judge of Paris Civil Court asked Google to pay amount of 300,000 euros to French Publisher Herve de La Martiniere that decided to take Google to court for digitising its books without first seeking legal permission to do so.

In addition to that Google will pay 10,000 euros per day until it removes extracts of the publisher’s books from its database.

La Martiniere, the French Publishers’ Association and authors’ group SGDL, who had begun the legal action against Google, had called for the Internet search engine giant to be fined 15m euros (£13.2m).

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