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Article: News service sues Google over content; Drudge, other Web sites at risk.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- March 23, 2005
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Byline: Andrew Johnson, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Agence France-Presse has filed a lawsuit against search engine giant Google Inc., accusing the company of reproducing and displaying copyrighted story leads, headlines and graphics on its news site without the international news service's permission.
The case could affect the way Web sites that display content published by other news organizations, such as the Drudge Report, which posts verbatim headlines written by other news outlets, can display information on their sites.
According to the complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Google News has illegally ...