Google Wins the Right to Display Thumbnails and to "Frame" Copyrighted Material Used Without Permission
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Google Wins the Right to Display Thumbnails and to "Frame" Copyrighted Material Used Without Permission
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 13:23:33 -0400
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Wednesday, May. 23, 2007 | FindLaw's WRIT
Google Wins the Right to Display Thumbnails and to "Frame" Copyrighted
Material Used Without Permission:
A Mostly Sensible Ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
By MICHAEL C. DORF
Last week, in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon
<http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0655405P.pdf>
<http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0655405P.pdf>, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected arguments that by
providing thumbnail pictures and by "framing" copyrighted material
without permission, Google's image search engine violates the Copyright Act.
The ruling was no doubt welcome news for Google and its shareholders.
But it's also good news for Internet users. The decision is a generally
sensible attempt to apply copyright law to the Internet without stifling
innovation.
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