The court in Paris ruled Friday that an American Internet company Google Inc.., Tackling the big project of digitization of books, breaking the French law. Google has been sentenced to 10 thousand. Euro fine per day until the removal of parts of French books scanned for its publicly accessible database.

In addition, Google has to pay 300 thousand. euros damages to the French publishing house La Martiniere, which brought the case against Google on behalf of a group of French publishers.

Google's lawyer, Alexandra Neri said that the company plans to appeal.

Google plans to scan millions of books to share them online. The project has stirred protests from publishers and libraries in the U.S. and Europe.
Serge Eyrolles, president of the French association of publishers, the Syndicat National de l'Edition, declared that he was "fully satisfied" the Paris court ruling on Friday. He said that Google has scanned 100 thousand French books, of which 80 per cent. items are protected by copyright.

Eyrolles added that the French publishers are still interested in working with Google to digitize books, but only on condition that "the others will cease to play with us and begin to respect the law, protecting individual property.

Philippe Colombet with Google, the head of the project to scan books in France, said, however, that now threatens to French readers that will be behind the rest of Internet users, losing access to significant knowledge. He added that the publication of "a limited number of short extracts' books is consistent with copyright law, both in France and the United States.

French publishers lawyers successfully argued in court but that the use of excerpts without permission is "inappropriate presentation of the work."