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A Paris court has found U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. guilty of violating copyright laws by digitizing books and putting them online.

A judge ruled Friday that Google must pay 300,000 euros ($430,000) in damages and interest to French publisher La Martiniere.

Google was also ordered to pay 10,000 euros per day until it removes extracts of the French books from its online database.

Google wants to scan millions of books and make them available online for its users.

This case will be seen as a success for critics who fear that Google will hold a monopoly over information.

Google continued to scan books even after publisher Herve de La Martiniere filed a lawsuit against the corporation three years ago.

In its ambitious project to put the world's literature online Google has so far scanned 10 million books through partnerships with libraries.