Google claims victory in French case over TFL copyright

Google Inc. said it won a French court case over alleged copyright infringement by its YouTube video service that rejected a claim from broadcaster TF1 for 140 million euros in damages.

“A French court rejected claims from France’s largest television broadcaster TF1 that YouTube has violated its copyright,” said Christophe Muller, YouTube’s head of partnerships for southern Europe, in a post on Google’s public policy blog.