Google has announced it will appeal a French court’s ordering “the US Internet giant to stop digitising French books without publishers’ approval,” and that also ordered the company to pay a €300,000 ($430,000), according to an Agence France Presse report. (See the earlier MobyLives report on the trial.)

Google was originally sued by one of France’s biggest publishing houses, Les Editions du Seuil and other publishers owned by La Martiniere group, “which claimed that thousands of its works had been digitised by Google without consent.”

The court ruled, “Google has committed acts of copyright violation to the detriment of Le Seuil,” and in addition to its payment to the publishers ordered Google to pay a € “symbolic sum of one euro to the SNE Publishers’ Association and the SGDL Society of Authors.”