Some important facts.. and Microsoft..? (Score 1)

Fair use & copyright are "unkown" terms in Belgium (and most of the non-anglosaxon world), but we have equal (or more) rights for authors AND users. It's only a difference of naming the whole thing.

Authors, artists & producers.. have a lot of rights in Belgium, but users (listeners, etc..) can freely use excerpts, quotes, etc.. for schools, reports, books, scientific research. We even have the right to copy a cd for personal use..

Other important things about this topic :

• it's only a minority of the Belgian press who went to court
• the others (Flemish part) all have nice deals with Google
• Google has a lot of legal ways to counter this ruling, this is not the end..
• the expert who assisted the judge was a former MICROSOFT employee

And please, stick to the main topic. Belgium is a small, but beautifull country full of the best beer in the world, best chocolate.. and a governement existing of socialists AND right wing liberals.