Court overturns Perfect 10's Ruling Against Google - GoFuckYourself.com

J$tyle$ · 05-16-2007, 04:41 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6663527.stm

A US federal appeal court has overturned a ruling preventing Google's image-search displaying small versions of photos from an adult website.

Perfect 10, which publishes a pornographic magazine and website, launched its case against Google in November 2004.

It later added the Amazon.com site to its complaint.

Google said the thumbnail images were "fair use" and the court agreed they were "highly transformative" work.

The original ruling had said that Google's thumbnails could undermine Perfect 10's efforts to sell small images to mobile phone users.

"We are delighted that the court affirmed long-standing principles of fair use," said Google General Counsel Kent Walker.

"Google services respect intellectual property and help people around the world find what they're looking for," he added.

'Might be liable'

Perfect 10 also said that the thumbnail pictures on Google were helping users to find other websites that were using the full-sized images without permission.

On that claim, the court said: "There is no dispute that Google... assists a worldwide audience of users to access infringing materials."

It ruled that Google might be liable if it could have taken "simple measures to prevent further damage to Perfect 10's copyrighted works and failed to take such steps".

The case reflects the growing discrepancy between technological change and the legal system, in particular over copyright and fair use.

baddog · 05-16-2007, 05:11 PM

interesting

XPays · 05-16-2007, 05:12 PM

it reenforces protections under the dmca for service providers. not relevant for commercial sites...

StarkReality · 05-16-2007, 05:26 PM

It's shows that laws are made only for those who don't have the money and power to give a shit.

warlock5 · 05-16-2007, 06:03 PM

Good, those cocksuckers were sending out C&Ds to Hegre affiliates.

ytcracker · 05-16-2007, 06:04 PM

yes interesting

J$tyle$ · 05-16-2007, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ytcracker

yes interesting

YT!

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05-16-2007, 04:41 PM	#1
J$tyle$ Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sunny San Diego Posts: 11,500	Court overturns Perfect 10's Ruling Against Google http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6663527.stm A US federal appeal court has overturned a ruling preventing Google's image-search displaying small versions of photos from an adult website. Perfect 10, which publishes a pornographic magazine and website, launched its case against Google in November 2004. It later added the Amazon.com site to its complaint. Google said the thumbnail images were "fair use" and the court agreed they were "highly transformative" work. The original ruling had said that Google's thumbnails could undermine Perfect 10's efforts to sell small images to mobile phone users. "We are delighted that the court affirmed long-standing principles of fair use," said Google General Counsel Kent Walker. "Google services respect intellectual property and help people around the world find what they're looking for," he added. 'Might be liable' Perfect 10 also said that the thumbnail pictures on Google were helping users to find other websites that were using the full-sized images without permission. On that claim, the court said: "There is no dispute that Google... assists a worldwide audience of users to access infringing materials." It ruled that Google might be liable if it could have taken "simple measures to prevent further damage to Perfect 10's copyrighted works and failed to take such steps". The case reflects the growing discrepancy between technological change and the legal system, in particular over copyright and fair use.

05-16-2007, 05:12 PM	#3
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05-16-2007, 05:11 PM	#2
baddog So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: the beach, SoCal Posts: 107,089	interesting

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05-16-2007, 06:03 PM	#5
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