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Saturday, July 12, 2003

Fair Use Ruling

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There was an interesting blurb over at SATN.org about a court ruling on fair use of copyrighted images.

A photographer sued a search engine company for copyright infringements. The companies ran a search engine for pictures on the web. The engine would go around the web looking for pictures and make thumbnails to display as results to searches on their site. The photographer requested to have his site not linked to. The company did remove him but he proceeded to file a lawsuit anyways.

The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the creation of thumbnails would be covered under fair use that is part of copyright law.

There's a nice 16 page ruling worth a read for the law types that do mind reading pages of lawyer speak.

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Posted by AlanBarber on 07/12/2003 at 03:27 PM
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