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Suits Against Google News Will Disappear

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The BusinessWeek headline reads "Belgian Court Deals Google A Bombsheel". Hardly.

A court in Belgium has ruled that Google (GOOG) needs to take down news titles and summaries that are covered by copyright and be fined until the purge is completed. Google publishes headlines at its news service these link to the stories at the individual news sites.

Google News covers of 4,500 sources, and almost none of them want to lose the traffic that the Google links send them. Most large daily newspapers and TV sites are included in Google news along with hundreds of second tier news feeds.

Google should cut off the Belgian sites and deprive them of the traffic. It should do the same with any other news sources that sues it for infringement. It will not take long for news organizations to realize that Google may be their largest source of audience. And, if they do not need it for their businesses, they should be allowed to go on their way.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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