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(回答先: AFPがグーグルを提訴、ニュースを無断使用と CNN/REUTERS 投稿者 馬鹿まるだし 日時 2005 年 3 月 23 日 11:42:20)
A社が商標登録した言葉、正式に登録されたサイト名を検索するとA社のライバル企業がキーワード広告として結果に表示されるのは不当である、と言うような裁判をGoogleは次々起こされて負け続けている。例えば旅行代理店Bourse des Vols、ホテルチェーンAccor、高級ブランドのLouis Vuitton。ニュースの使用ではAFPだけでなく共同通信やAP通信とももめている。
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/27/business/google28.html
Google ensnared in a war of words
By Doreen Carvajal International Herald Tribune
Monday, March 28, 2005
PARIS Fabrice Dariot's travel agency, Bourse des Vols, boasts a terrace lined with potted plants and sweeping views of 17th-century apartments in the center of the city.
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The compact fifth-floor office is an unlikely front line for a battle of words with the online search engine Google - or "Omnigoogle," as some French critics scornfully call the giant company.
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Dariot, a mathematician turned Internet entrepreneur, is an even more unlikely standard-bearer for a series of proliferating lawsuits and legal disputes that challenge Google's sacrosanct business routines.
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"Google is a giant, but they cannot dictate the law," said Dariot, 41, a chief executive in a casual sweater and denim who took on the international company with some inspiration, he said, from independent French icons like Joan of Arc who were not afraid to challenge authority.
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This month, Dariot triumphed in his year-and-a-half-old lawsuit against Google's French subsidiary, which has been ordered to pay him €75,000, or $97,000, in fines and legal costs. Dariot and his travel companies, Luteciel and Viaticum, successfully challenged Google's practice of selling Internet advertising from rivals designed to appear with Web searches for his trademarked Web site name, Bourse des Vols, which means flight exchange.
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Keyword advertising, as it is known, is the main source of revenue for Google, which posted $3.19 billion in sales in 2