Google Loses Thumbs To Perfect 10

Google suffered a setback in court last Friday as US District Judge Howard Matz ruled that thumbnail displays retrieved by the company's image search feature were a likely violation of copyright law. Links to third party sites and the practice of "framing" the image above those sites, however, were not considered to be in violation.

November of 2004 for copyright infringement brought about by image search. In August of 2005, the magazine filed for an injunction against Google to stop copying, displaying, and distributing over 3,000 Perfect 10 photos. The devil is in the details in this case, as this was only a partial ruling from Matz, asking both parties to come to an agreement on thumbnail display, and the terms to settle the issue by March 8th. If no agreement is reached, then a trial will be set for the final ruling. The main issue of concern for Matz was the impact here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web