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Originally Posted by chadglni
How many people have sued google for copyright infringement and won monetary settlements? I figure you for the guy that would know that. Also, why doesn't google and every other big site stop, surely all these "lawsuits" are causing them trouble.  |
Similar cases have been taken to court, and google seems so far to be exempt (tho interesting approach by Perfect10, rather than suing google, they get websites de-listed), because they provide the thumbnail view from the original site (and linking to it), and don't do any conversions of the image.
This EFF page is good reading on this subject about google:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking/199603...statement.html
http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking/Kelly_v_Arriba_Soft/
Fight the cliff notes!