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However, Google noted that it was unable to do this in many cases due to deficiencies in the requests. Google states that it complied with the notices where it could find the infringement and determine that it was in fact an infringement, removing the images from Google Search. In May 2004, it began sending similar notices for Google's new image search functionality. Beginning in May 2001, Perfect 10 sent notices to Google informing it of specific links to infringing images in its general Web search and requesting their removal. Perfect 10 believed the linking constituted secondary copyright infringement, and the caching and thumbnails constituted direct infringement.
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Google did not store or physically transmit the full images, only their thumbnails. Furthermore, when a user selects an image from a Google search, a new page is accessed that includes the original website as well as a frame that contains information about the image and the thumbnail version of the image. As part of its image search service, Google also provides thumbnail copies of the images that are being searched for, so the user may see them before accessing the website. The sites crawled included many of the third-party sites containing Perfect 10's copyrighted images. Google crawls, indexes, and caches websites on its internal servers so they can be accessed quickly. A number of independent, third-party website publishers placed images obtained from Perfect 10's subscription-only area on their own websites, violating Perfect 10's terms of service and copyright. It also operated a subscription-only website featuring such images and leased some of these images to other businesses. Perfect 10 was an adult entertainment magazine that featured sexually provocative images of women. The case originated as a suit against Google, with Amazon being added as another defendant at the Circuit Court hearings, because Amazon used thumbnail images that had been obtained from Google. The court held that framing and hyperlinking of original images for use in an image search engine constituted a fair use of Perfect 10's images because the use was highly transformative, and thus not an infringement of the magazine's copyright ownership of the original images. and Google, Inc., by the magazine publisher Perfect 10, Inc. , Inc., 508 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir., 2007) was a case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit involving a copyright infringement claim against, Inc. The use of thumbnail versions of copyright images for search engine purposes is transformative use, and falls within the fair use provisions of United States copyright law.Ĭynthia Holcomb Hall, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Sandra S.


Grant of partial injunctive relief: Perfect 10 v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
