If only these newspapers knew about Google Guard, they would not have had to spend so much money on lawyers!

Belgian French-language newspapers said Tuesday they want search engine Google to pay up to euro49 million ($77 million) in damages for publishing and storing their content without permission.

The newspaper copyright group Copiepresse said it had summoned Google to appear again before a Brussels court in September that will decide on their claim that they suffered damages of between euro32.8 million ($51.7 million) and euro49.2 million ($77.5 million).

The group called on Google to pay a provisional amount of euro4 million ($6.3 million).

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