Actually, Copiepresse is suing Google for publishing and storing their content without permission, but what they obviously don't understand is that when Google News publishes your headline and a short excerpt linking to the original article, that's fair use, and it's a good thing because it sends you tons of traffic.
This is an old story; and if you've been following it closely, you know that Google had already lost once. Copiepresse only wanted their content to be removed from Google News and Google.be, however, now they want money - anywhere between 51.7 and 77.5 million dollars will do.
Google hasn't commented on the lawsuit yet, but we know what their position is. They've said it clearly last time:
We believe search engines are of real benefit to publishers because they drive valuable traffic to their websites. If publishers do not want their websites to appear in search results, technical standards like robots.txt and metatags enable them automatically to prevent the indexation of their content. These Internet standards are nearly universally accepted and are honored by all reputable search engines.