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In its latest round of questions sent to rivals regarding the activities and workings of Google, the European Commission has turned the spotlight on the search giant’s image grabbing facilities.
Its most recent questionnaires (RFIs, or requests for information) contain five pages of detailed questions on the issue, revealed one recipient to El Reg this week.
One question asks if companies can exert control over the use of their images on Google Images “without the need to entirely prohibit their use”. The source described Google’s activity as a “systematic disrespect of copyright as an anti-competitive weapon”.
