Agence-France Presse sues Google for copyright violations. The suit may have merit. However, Google has a lot of power on the internet - and step one, they pull AFP from Google News. They could pull them out of search results as well - though I doubt they will.

Back when Microsoft mattered, they could do all sorts of thing to discourage, intimidate or blackmail a company that bothered MSFT competitively or legally. Now, I think Google has that power...

¶ 3/22/2005