14 DAY TRIAL // Because Yahoo is one of the most popular internet companies, many other firms are trying to create similar applications that can challenge the giant portal's ones. That's why a lot of services that provide quick access to maps, videos and search technologies are currently available from multiple developers from all around the world. At this time, one of the most powerful Yahoo rivals is Google, the company that offers the well-known search engine visited every day by millions of users. Although most companies are trying to challenge Yahoo through a fair competition, the giant portal also encounters a lot of complaints and lawsuits filed by multiple companies.
The latest lawsuit was filed by a Belgian newspaper that claims Yahoo used headlines from its website without authorization. As you might know, Yahoo also owns a news service that receives news from several internet publications, organizing them on multiple categories and publishing on a single website. At this time, Yahoo News is a very popular solution, competing with Google News, a similar service provided by the search giant. Even if the giant portal mentions the source and gives the link to the official news, the Belgian newspapers sued Yahoo saying that the company must remove specific headlines from its website.
Today, Yahoo representatives published an official statement, saying that the company didn't infringe their copyrights and will provide additional information soon.
"Yahoo Denies Violating Belgian Copyright Law at the Wall Street Journal gives us insight into how Yahoo will be handling the legal threat by Belgian newspapers to sue Yahoo over violating copyright laws. Yahoo has claimed that they did not violate any copyright laws for "publishing snippets and links" to their newspapers.
Yahoo released a statement saying, "We can confirm that Copiepresse has contacted us regarding the display of archived results on our Web search service and we will respond in an appropriate manner." Now, Yahoo can either remove the content without going to court or they can take Google's route and fight the claims," Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Land said.