Google Favors Pirate Sites Over Those That License Images Legally

Posted on 7/28/2014 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

On July 19, 2014 the TV channel France24 broadcasted a comprehensive 11 minute report on "Why Google is annoying/ Pourquoi Google nous agace." This report has been translated into English and can be found here.

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Jim Pickerell Posted Jul 30, 2014
In response to my comment about unauthorized use being much higher than 85% Alfonso Gutierrez, CEPIC President wrote:

We know this. We have the precise statistics as part of of the anti-trust complain presented by CEPIC to the EU that was accepted by the Commission by the end of last year, and we have added more data in our very latest response, in this July 16, to Google answer to the EU on our initial anti-trust complain. Our industry has to do more than accepting the facts and giving explanations, CEPIC is moving forward to defend the interest of photographers and right holders while indicating to the EU that Google should pay for the abusive use is doing when indexing images indiscriminately promoting piracy and benefiting its own interests. It is about time that we do a bit more than just guessing on what is happening.

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