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Belgian group warns Yahoo, awaits Google ruling
Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:42pm ET
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A Belgian copyright defence ***ociation
said on Thursday it had demanded the French division of Internet portal
Yahoo (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile , Research) stop reproducing snippets of
Belgian press reports.

"We sent a warning letter to them yesterday demanding that they remove
our content or make an agreement with us," Margaret Boribon, head of
the Copiepresse group, told Reuters.

An official at Yahoo France had no comment.

Copiepresse, which manages copyrights for French- and German-language
newspapers in Belgium, is waiting for a Belgian court to rule on an
injunction it filed to block Web search engine Google (GOOG.O: Quote,
Profile , Research) reproducing snippets of Belgian press.


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"We are waiting for it (the verdict) to come before the end of the
month," Boribon said.

Copiepresse argues that versions of news articles that Google stores
can be seen using the company's service even after the articles are no
longer freely accessible on a newspaper's Web site, a process known as
caching.