Google wins over Perfect 10’s copyright infringement case

Adult magazine Perfect 10 earlier filed a copyright infringement claim against Google alleging that Google was crawling the Perfect10.com website and created thumbnails of copyrighted images that were later displayed in Google Image search results.

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Google did store the thumbnails but argued that image thumbnails were protected under the copyright doctrine of fair use.

Now a court has also said that using thumbnail-sized images of pictures does not constitute infringement, even when the images are copyrighted.


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3 Responses to “Google wins over Perfect 10’s copyright infringement case”


  1. 1 Murali

    Thumps up to google!!

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  2. 2 thinkdj

    This means we’re legally allowed to use thumbnails of copyrighted photos :D woohoo

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  3. 3 matt

    Perfect 10 photo’s no less! :D

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