• Reuters, Friday, December 18, 2009 3:15 PM

Following a legal challenge by major French publishers, a Paris court has found Google guilty of violating copyright for digitizing books and putting extracts online. The ruling comes after the La Martiniere group, which controls the Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and authors were losing out in the latest stage of the digital revolution. La Martiniere, the French Publishers' Association, and authors' groups SGDL argued that scanning books was an act of reproduction that should be paid for, and demanded that the US-based search giant be fined $21.59 million.

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