The sweet sound of stacks of Euros being riffled with glee has brought an end to Agence France-Presse's suit against Google for indexing its stories and photos for Google News. A licensing agreement inked between Google and AFP will permit the French news company's content to appear in Google News, where it can be found in snippet form, enabling searchers to visit the original AFP posting for the complete story.
Financial details of that agreement were regretably undisclosed in the The report cited AFP chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pierre Louette, who said the details of the newly licensed partnership will go beyond snippets of content:"The agreement will allow uses of AFP's content in ways that go beyond its typical use of content in Google's services, which features just headlines and snippets of text to provide just a taste of what an article offers," Louette said. He did not elaborate.Google has a similar agreement in place with Associated Press, with financial terms also unavailable. The usual position Google has when it comes to indexing content, whether it is from personal websites, news sources, or even printed books, has been that its operations fall under the context of
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