A Gallic picture companionship file a causa against Google in the Paris Commercial Court , charge the hunting colossus with right of first publication misdemeanor .

Flach Film says that Google acted not as a simple host but as a amply responsible publishing company in permit Google Video users to stream or download the Flach - produced documentary , Le monde selon Bush , orThe World According to Bush .

The film , which no longer seems to be uncommitted on the French Google Video website , had more than 43,000 views in a short period of prison term , Flach said . The Google Video site displays a tally of how many masses have see each TV .

Flach Film distributes the film for display in theaters and on DVD and say that by enabling admittance to the film for free , Google Video France runs foul of France ’s intellectual attribute laws .

Flach is asking the court to require Google to yield for the losses it has incurred by not being compensated for the showing of the pic on Google Video .

Google rapidly removed the film from Google Video once it learned of the unauthorized copies send on the site , it said in a argument . Uploading videos illegally goes against the term and conditions of Google Video , Google said .

It ’s unclear if this suit is the same one that Google revealed during a late quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . At the time , Google enounce that it had been the topic of a causa regarding a single television that briefly appeared on the site .

Google recently buy YouTube , the popular online television - communion service , and since then industry observer have wondered if Google might become the theme of costly lawsuits from the possessor of content diffuse without mandate on the site .

Google is the subject of other lawsuits that bear down the company with illegally post content . A group of paper publishers in Belgium is suing the company for copyright violation over the way that it posts snippets of stories in Google News . Good Book publisher are also suing Google over its Book Search offering .