You perhaps recall the litigation between Copiepresse in Belgium and Google was supposed to have a hearing on Google’s appeal right about now. Or, like me, you forgot about it, but our own Sean Daly did not. He’s been following up, and he tells us that talks between the parties continue as predicted, in hopes of an amicable resolution. When parties ask a court for more time for talks, it is usually a good sign.
Sean has obtained for us the full text of the Brussels Court of First Instance February 13th ruling, the original one being appealed by Google, in French [PDF], and the official English translation [PDF]. I’ll present it in plain text here as well. He also obtained permission from the BBC for Groklaw to let you hear a discussion [Ogg] from last March on the BBC including Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and Margaret Boribon of Copiepresse. But I’ll let Sean tell you about it himself.…more
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