French studio sues Google for copyright infringement

Producer of the French film " The World According to Bush " has proceeded to sue Google because the search giant has distributed the movie for free on the Internet. This is the latest company seeking compensation for damages caused by the Internet.

The French film studio Flach Film on Thursday (November 23) said it had filed a petition with the Paris Commercial Court, sued Google Internet search firm and its Google subsidiary for violating copyright.

In a statement, Flach Film also warned that legitimate Internet video market would not be able to develop if dispersal actions similar to those of Google were allowed. There are currently no representatives of Google France commenting on this.

Google Video was accused by Flach Film for spreading pirated movies.

While file-sharing sites and virtual social networks like YouTube and MySpace are popular and strongly supported by netizens, they are also being claimed by movie studios for distribution and download. Their movies, songs and video clips.

Flach said his film about President Bush can be accessed via stream and download for free on Google Video France with just a few clicks. According to a Google source, the movie has 43,000 hits "in a very short time".

Jean-Francois Lepetit, the director of the released film, said that Google Video has removed the link to the movie after learning Flach's legal action.

Answering the phone interview, Mr. Lepetit said: " We estimate the damage of this incident amounted to more than 500,000 euros (US $ 648,700). The movie was downloaded about 50,000 times and has certainly continued. illegally copying then ".

Earlier this month, Google completed the acquisition of YouTube - the hottest homegrown video sharing website - for $ 1.65 billion. At that time, Google said 1/8 of the acquisition cost, about $ 200 million, would be retained for security compensation costs or other specific cases, such as Copyright infringement.

On November 7, Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied that his company had set aside $ 500 million to settle content copyright lawsuits by YouTube producers.

Flach Film's lawsuit against Google took place after Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company and part of Vivendi, filed a lawsuit against MySpace over the rights of tens of thousands of songs last week. My song.

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