{"id":550496,"date":"2006-10-13T07:14:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T07:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550496-belgian-papers-target-microsoft.html"},"modified":"2006-10-13T07:14:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T07:14:36","slug":"belgian-papers-target-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550496-belgian-papers-target-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Belgian papers target Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Copiepresse, which represents French and German language newspaper editors in Belgium, has sent a letter to Microsoft on their behalf asking that it stop the unauthorised publishing of articles on its &quot;www.msn.be&quot; site. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;Microsoft got in contact with our lawyer yesterday,&quot; a spokeswoman for Copiepresse said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>She said that Microsoft often vigorously &quot;defends its intellectual property rights on its software&quot; and that Copiepresse therefore expected proceedings to run more smoothly than with Google. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>On September 5, a Belgian lower court ordered Google News to stop reproducing content from French-language and German-language newspapers in Belgium on its Belgian site. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The Californian group, under threat of one-million-euro-a-day fines, more or less complied with that ruling, although there was some grumbling about its archive section. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Google was also liable to pay another half a million euros (625,000 dollars) per day if it failed to publish the ruling on its Belgian site continuously for five days. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Belgian newspapers had attacked Google News at the beginning of the year because the US company had not asked them for permission to use their content &#8211; articles, photographs and graphics &#8211; and had not paid the publications. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The case in Belgium is being watched by other news providers.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0 <br \/><i>INet-Bridge<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian newspapers, fresh from a court victory against search engine Google, have said that they were going after US software group Microsoft, and in particular its Belgian MSN news service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}