Alphabet’s Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish on-line job-search rival Jobindex, a 12 months after the latter complained to EU antitrust regulators that the U.S. tech big unfairly favoured its personal job-search service.
The Danish Media Affiliation on behalf of Jobindex sued Google at a Danish court docket alleging copyright violations.
Jobindex has accused Google of copying job adverts to its personal service with out permission and needs compensation and damages for copyright violations.
That is the primary lawsuit within the Danish courts underneath new EU copyright guidelines relating to platforms’ legal responsibility for content material uploaded to their providers that got here into power in 2021.
“We’re prepared to compete with Google, however it have to be on equal phrases, not with Google for Jobs having merchandise on its cabinets that are not theirs,” Jobindex Chief Government Kaare Danielsen stated in an announcement.
Danish Media Affiliation CEO Mads Brandstrup urged Danish authorities to implement the copyright guidelines in opposition to Massive Tech.
Jobindex has not used Google’s instruments for flagging copyright infringing content material, a Google spokesperson stated.
“The Jobs operate in Google Search was created to make job search so simple as attainable, making it simpler for folks to seek out related job outcomes extra shortly and growing site visitors and job matches for collaborating job suppliers,” she stated.
“Any job supplier – large or small – can participate. Nobody is included within the Jobs operate in Search until they wish to be – and we respect any choice to not take part in these options.”
The EU antitrust watchdog has but to behave on Jobindex’s grievance.
