Agence France-Presse is seeking damages and interest of at least 17.5 million USD from search world leade Google Inc. for displaying AFP material.

    BEIJING, Mar. 21 -- Paris-based french news service Agence France-Presse (AFP) has sued Google Inc. seeking damages and interest of at least 17.5 million USD for displaying AFP's photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission.

    Except the damages, AFP also seek an order barring Google News from displaying AFP photographs, news headlines or story leads, according to the suit filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

    "Without AFP's authorization, defendant is continuously and willfully reproducing and publicly displaying AFP's photographs, headlines and story leads on its Google News web pages," AFP charged in its lawsuit.

    The lawsuit comes a few months after Perfect 10, a publisher of nude photographs, sued Google in federal court in Los Angeles. Enditem

    (Agencies)