Google News banned by Brussels High Court – Copiepresse SCRL v. Google Inc. – Prohibitory injunction of the President of the High Court of Brussels, 5 September 2006

Since 2003, the Google search engine has made available in Belgium its online free service “Google News”, which consists of offering Internet users a computer-generated press review. This case note considers the order of the President of the High Court of Brussels, in which it was found that, by offering this service, Google infringed the copyrights and sui generis database rights of Belgian newspapers.