Danish job board Jobindex and Danske Medier are appealing the verdict in the lawsuit against Google.

On 27 August, a Danish court acquitted Google of allegations that it made job ads from Jobindex available on Google for Jobs without permission.

The Maritime and Commercial Court had determined in the judgment that Google was not responsible for the availability of Jobindex’s job advertisements in Google for Jobs.

The court considered that the Google for Jobs service is part of Google’s regular search engine and, therefore, did not regard the service as a competitor to Jobindex either.

Danske Medier and Jobindex have decided to appeal the verdict, stating that it is based on a legally incorrect assessment of Google’s responsibility in relation to the use of other people’s content in the Google for Jobs service.

They believe that the service is not just a search function but an ‘independent job universe that exploits other people’s content by copying entire job ads without the necessary permission’.

“After consulting in detail with our lawyers, we are convinced that the court’s premises are completely wrong. Therefore, we see no other way out than to have the case tried in a second instance,” Christina Blaagaard, chairman of Danske Medier, said in a press release.