Google case could clip search engines’ wings reports that “A French court has ruled against the internet search engine Google in an intellectual property rights case that may have far reaching technological and financial implications for internet search firms, which process tens of millions of queries a day.” The court “fined Google €75,000 ($126,000) for allowing advertisers to link text internet advertisements to trademarked search terms and gave the company 30 days to stop the practice, common at internet search services.” The decision, if “upheld on appeal and validated in other countries, [] could force the search services to pre-screen search terms for trademarks before letting advertisers use them.”
Yet another way IP infringes private property rights.
11:43 pm on October 20, 2003
