PARIS - A Paris court today found Google guilty of violating copyright by digitizing books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court ruled against Google’s French unit after the La Martiniere group argued that publishers and authors were losing out in the latest stage of the digital revolution.

Google was ordered to pay 300,000 euros ($431,700) in damages and interest and to stop reproducing any copyrighted material by French publishers.  Read more…

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