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Giant online advertising entity Google has been found guilty of copyright viloation.

The Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris has ordered Google to pay a 300,000 Euro (about $428,874) fine, says the Barcelona Reporter, going on:

“The fine was imposed on Google for digitizing excerpts from books without the consent of the authors. The decision, prohibiting [ ... it] to continue scanning texts without permission, also requires it pays that amount to the affected publishers, the French publishing group La Martinière.”

Criticism by industry and governments in Europe “forced Google to limit its accord to establish a Book Rights Registry to works published in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada,” says Bloomberg News.

“Google agreed to pay copyright holders for protected works and seek to find owners of so-called orphan works whose owners are unknown. The settlement left open many of the issues dealt with in today’s decision dealing with Google Books in France.”

Google France says it considers the ruling “detrimental to the public [read Google] good”, says the Barcelona Reporter.

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