I just found this on everyones favorite news source.. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/18/france-vs-google-book-scanning-plans/ A Paris court ruled that Google is breaking French law with its policy of digitizing books, handing the U.S. Internet giant a $14,300-a-day fine until it rids its search engine of the literary extracts.
google penalty seems to be a double edge sowrd. so far google penalized for copied content, now its payback time