Google infringes on nude photo site: court papers

[hunter]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc.'s image search service violates the copyrights of adult magazine and Web publisher Perfect 10 Inc. by displaying thumbnail-sized photographs site, a federal judge has ruled.

However, Google is likely not responsible for displaying the underlying images from Perfect 10's Web site, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said in a ruling last week that was made public on Tuesday.

The order could effectively bar Google from featuring thumbnail pictures -- small versions of photos that are linked to a bigger version of the same picture -- but not limit Google from linking to actual photos which exist on other Web sites.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-02-22T181954Z_01_N22386982_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-GOOGLE-LAWSUIT.xml

There's something very odd here. Most internet sites like this try to get picked up by google images. Maybe the site figures they will get even more publicity this way?

[ECH1969]

1. There is always someone who screws things up for everyone else

[Up2Late]

2. LOL!

[Laelth]

3. Bummer!

I love Google's image search capability. I won't use it without the thumbnails. Yes, the thumbnails may be a copyright violation, but, if so, the law needs to be changed so that thumbnails don't infringe on a copyright.

I think the judge made a bad call here. :(

-Laelth

[951-Riverside]

4. Everytime Google stands up to the DOJ

These stories come flying out of the woodworks

[GodlessBiker]

6. Now if Google would only stand up to China.

[951-Riverside]

7. I thought that was Yahoo

Heard they turned over a Chinese Journalist to the Chinese Government

[hunter]

9. Google agreed to censorship in China.

Sad to say.

[hunter]

8. That's why this caught my attention.

In the United States various legal restrictions are first tested out on the porn industry.

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. That's weird

Maybe it's because they use such high resolution images on their site that the thumbnails look clear? (Oh, wait...how would I know that? :blush:)

Actually, I'd never heard of Perfect 10 before I started shopping for poker chips for an all-girl poker party and discovered they make a (high quality!) poker chip set with topless girls on them! (And yes, I bought it! I'm no dummy!) :D