Legal Opinion
Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 16, 2007No. 06-55405, 06-55406, 06-55425, 06-55759, 06-55854, 06-55877PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IKUTA, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we consider a copyright owner’s efforts to stop an Internet search engine from facilitating access to infringing images. Perfect 10, Inc. sued Google Inc., for infringing Perfect 10’s copyrighted photographs of nude models, among other claims. Perfect 10 brought a similar action against Amazon.com and its subsidiary A9.com (collectively, “Amazon.com”). The district court preliminarily enjoined Google from creating and publicly displaying thumbnail versions of Perfect 10’s images, Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc., 416 F.Supp.2d 828 (C.D.Cal.2006), but did not…
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3Cited by43 opinions
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