Google hit with copyright lawsuit by Danish online job-search rival
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Alphabet's Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, a year after the latter complained to EU antitrust regulators that the U.S. tech giant unfairly favoured its own job-search service.The Danish Media Association on behalf of Jobindex sued Google at a Danish court alleging copyright violations. Jobindex has accused Google of copying job ads to its own service without permission and wants compensation and damages for copyright violations. This is the first lawsuit in the Danish courts under new EU copyright rules regarding platforms' liability for content uploaded to their services that came into force in 2021."We're willing to compete with Google, but it must be on equal terms, not with Google for Jobs having products on its shelves th...