A year after complaining to EU competition officials that Alphabet's Google unjustly favored its own job-search service, the Danish online job-search rival Jobindex filed a lawsuit against Alphabet.

The Danish Media Association filed a copyright lawsuit against Google in a Danish court on behalf of Jobindex.

Jobindex has accused Google of copying job advertisements to its own service without authorization and is seeking restitution and damages for copyright breaches.

This is the first action filed in Danish courts under new EU copyright regulations governing platforms' accountability for content uploaded to their services, which take effect in 2021.

“We're willing to compete with Google, but it must be on equal terms, not with Google for Jobs having products on its shelves that aren't theirs,” says Jobindex Chief Executive Kaare Danielsen.

Mads Brandstrup, CEO of the Danish Media Association, encouraged Danish authorities to enforce copyright laws against Big Tech.

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