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| Le Soir |
 |
| Type |
Daily newspaper |
| Format |
Berliner |
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| Owner |
Rossel & Cie. S.A |
| Editor |
Béatrice Delvaux |
| Founded |
1887 |
| Headquarters |
Rue Royale, 100
1000 Brussels |
|
| Website: www.lesoir.be |
Le Soir (meaning The Evening) is a berliner Belgian newspaper. Le Soir was founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel. It is the most popular Francophone newspaper in Belgium, and considered a newspaper of record. Compared to its conservative and Catholic competitor, La Libre Belgique, Le Soir is seen as progressive, and it is politically federalist.
[edit] Google controversy
The paper gained some notority on the internet after it successfully sued Google for copyright infringement. The case was built on the fact that Google made parts of the newspaper's website available through its search engine and through its Google News service, even after the articles had been removed from the newspaper's website. A Belgian judge ruled that this did not conform to Belgian regulations and ordered Google to remove all "copyright violations" from its websites. Google responded as requested, by removing all links to the Belgian newspaper from its search index.
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