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January 21, 2008

Belgian newspapers may sue EC over web links to stories

By Martin Stabe wirepost

Belgium’s French- and German-language newspapers may sue the European Commission over online links to newspaper articles, Bloomberg reported last week.

Copiepresse, the same organisation that sued Google over the Google News aggregator last year, says two web sites belonging to the European Commission may be infringing copyright laws by linking to Belgian newspapers’ articles.

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