In March 2005, Agence France-Presse filed a suit against Google in the United States and France, claiming that Google News cuts into its subscription business. AFP, which has signed licensing agreements with Yahoo, MSN AOL and other major Internet players, sought damages and called for Google to cease its indexing of AFP content. Google News, Google Actualities and other Google services will now once again index headlines and photographs from the AFP, thanks to a licensing agreement (financial terms undisclosed) between the two companies. "The agreement will allow uses of AFP's content in ways that go beyond its typical use of content in Google's services, which features just headlines and snippets of text to provide just a taste of what an article offers," AFP chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pierre Louette said in a statement.
News source: InternetNews
News source: InternetNews
This deal extends to additional use beyond the typical Google news blurbs. And, with AFP getting "undisclosed" financial benefit, it sounds like they have successfully extorted money from Google.
Seems like it is in fashion to sue Microsoft, Google, or anyone with money these days.
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