December 13, 2014 *Spain Versus the Internet** * By Vauhini Vara In separate lawsuits launched in the mid-aughts, a group of newspapers in Belgium and the Agence France-Presse news agency in France sued Google for displaying snippets of text from their articles in Google News results. They argued that the snippets violated their copyright. In the years that followed, as Google News expanded its influence around the globe, both the A.F.P. and the Belgian newspapers reached agreements with Google to display the text, after all—in 2007 and 2012, respectively. The financial details of the deals weren’t disclosed, but all of the parties professed to be pleased at the outcome, and the fight faded from headlines, especially in the U.S. […] Continua qui: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/spain-versus-internet