Google Settles With France Presse

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Google Settles With France Presse

By: Nathan Weinberg
2007-04-12

Google has settled its dispute with the AFP. Last week, Google and the Agence France-Presse announced that the AFPs suit against Google had been settled with both pleased at the outcome.

While details of the agreement were not publicized, they did say that it will allow better use of the AFPs content on the internet while protecting the copyright (and likely monetary) concerns of the AFP. Google signed a similar deal with the Associated Press eight months ago.

However, all is not well. Billionaire Sam Zell, who last week bought parts of the Tribune newspaper empire, gave a highly controversial speech alleging that Google is profiting by stealing content. While newspapers have long complained about Google News, Zells comments were so inflammatory, almost to suggest that all content Google indexes is stolen, and seems like the old man is gearing up for a fight. Reading the Washington Post piece on the story, he comes off as a very caustic individual, ready and almost excited at the prospect of taking on Google.

Luckily/Predictably, the comments at TechMeme portray Zell as a complete idiot, which he may very well be.

Oh, and Yahoo struck a deal with Viacom for advertising on all their websites. Yeah, Googles stance as YouTubes daddy may hurt them in lost ad deals more than anything. Wanna bet they get the Viacom deal if they didnt buy YouTube? Damn right.

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