Google Wins Appeal on Copyright of Nude Images

May 16, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley 
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Federal appeals court ruled out yesterday that Google has not infringe any copyrights act by allowing the user to search for adult publishing company’s porn images in thumbnail size. If the courts say Google did not infringe any copyright act because they simply don’t store these images on their server, then won’t that applies to P2P company like Kazaa or Napster, they don’t store but merely pointing to the user where and how to download these files.

Let say if Napster function just like Google, searching for mp3s using only the browser, would Napster be infringe any copyright act? This is a grey area. Read More.

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  1. Charles Langer

    May 30th, 2007
    1

    I think the main difference, in making a P2P analogy, is that 99.99999% of p2p content is assumed to be of infringing nature– not necessarily so with Search.
    Plus, it’s the responsibility of content owners to prevent such access, if it bothers them so much.

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