Judge Tells Google That Having Sticky Thumbnails When Copying Porn is a No No

[mandy]

A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other websites, are likely to violate US copyright law.

US District Judge A Howard Matz ruled on Friday that Perfect 10, an adult-oriented website featuring "beautiful natural women" in the nude, has shown that Google image search probably infringes copyright law "by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs".

The Los Angeles judge said he would award Perfect 10 a preliminary injunction against Google...

full article: http://management.silicon.com/government...657,00.htm

[bargainbloodhound]

Nice title 

[mandy]

Update:

Allies have begun taking sides in a court case that has far-reaching implications for the Internet. At stake is a practice at the heart of the Net: linking information between Web sites.

The case pits search Goliath Google against adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10, and is currently before a federal appeals court in San Francisco where supporters of both sides have begun showing their colors through "friends of the court" briefs.

The latest groups to trumpet Google's side in the case are the Electronic Frontier Foundation Latest News about Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Library Copyright Alliance, a group of library associations...

"[Perfect 10's] theory is that merely linking to a Web site that has infringing content on it -- even if you don't know it has infringing content on it -- is an act that should make you liable to the copyright owner of whatever is on that site," according to EFF staff attorney Jason Schultz...

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/qECC...ight.xhtml

[xppman]

So let me get this straight.
Websites like perfect 10 have been KW SPAMMING
the search engines for years to get their content in YOUR FACE
so they can make a buck.

Now they want to blame the search engine companies like Google,
because once the pics were put in YOUR FACE others right clicked,
save and re used them? Or that the Google thumbs of their pix for indexing
is somehow copyright infringement?

Hey adult industry... get a clue... don't want anyone
using them or indexing them. DON'T PUT THEM OUT THERE.  :

[Anita]

Are sticky thumbnails anything like scratch and sniff?

[xppman]

[quote author=Anita link=topic=2758.msg18785#msg18785 date=1154008129]
Are sticky thumbnails anything like scratch and sniff?
[/quote]

Now that would be truly revolutionary. I'd be a scratching and a sniffin.