A French film company filed a lawsuit against Google in the Paris Commercial Court, charging the search giant with copyright infringement. Flach Film says that Google acted not as a simple host, but as a fully responsible publisher in allowing Google Video users to stream or download the Flach-produced documentary, Le monde selon Bush, or The World According to Bush.The film, which no longer appears to be available on the French Google Video site, had more than 43,000 views in a short period of time, Flach said. The Google Video site displays a tally of how many people have viewed each video. Flach Film distributes the film for display in theaters and on DVD and says that by enabling access to the film for free, Google Video France runs foul of France’s intellectual property laws. Flach is asking the court to require Google to pay for the losses it has incurred by not being compensated for the display of the film on Google Video. Google quickly removed the film from Google Video once it learned of the unauthorized copies posted on the site, it said in a statement. Uploading videos illegally goes against the terms and conditions of Google Video, Google said. It’s unclear if this suit is the same one that Google revealed during a recent quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. At the time, Google said it had been the subject of a lawsuit regarding a single video that briefly appeared on the site. Google recently purchased YouTube, the popular online video-sharing service, and since then industry observers have wondered if Google might become the subject of costly lawsuits from the owners of content distributed without authorization on the site.Google is the subject of other lawsuits that charge the company with illegally posting content. A group of newspaper publishers in Belgium is suing the company for copyright infringement over the way that it posts snippets of stories in Google News. Book publishers are also suing Google over its Book Search offering.-Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)Related Links: Google to Pick Up YouTube in $1.65B Stock Deal Google Downplays Video Lawsuit Google Filing Reveals Video Lawsuit Google Shares Break $500 Mark for 1st TimeCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content feature Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI CTO Rathi Murthy sees the online travel service’s vast troves of data and AI expertise fueling a two-pronged transformation strategy aimed at growing the company by bringing more of the travel industry online. By Paula Rooney Jun 02, 2023 7 mins Travel and Hospitality Industry Digital Transformation Artificial Intelligence case study Deoleo doubles down on sustainability through digital transformation The Spanish multinational olive oil processing company is immersed in a digital transformation journey to achieve operational efficiency and contribute to the company's sustainability strategy. By Nuria Cordon Jun 02, 2023 6 mins CIO Supply Chain Digital Transformation brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe