The Belgian tribunal issued a decision on February 13 that "the giant " Google had to remove the headlines and links to articles published on its news website.

Google lost in a copyright lawsuit in which it was told by Belgian online press agencies that it had arbitrarily linked to sources without prior permission.

Belgium: Google lost the case images 1 As for Google, the company said it would appeal the decision, claiming that the Google News news service was " perfectly legal ", and that the court's ruling did not create any precedent.

Meanwhile, the Belgian court argued that Google could not rely on controversies like the company had " fair use " of its sources because of headlines, text and images linked to the original page. The Belgian court considered it to be a violation of copyright and intellectual property laws.