French courts could force Google to censor piracy search results
Google could receive a French court order requiring the company to censor piracy results flagged up in its autocomplete search function.
French collection society SNEP has been campaigning to stop Google associating music searches with piracy terms such as ‘torrent’ or filesharing websites in its predictive search function.
In 2010, however, the French courts rejected the SNEP’s claims that Google was promoting piracy, deciding that making a commonly-used search term transparent in this way is not the same as encouraging ...
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