Legal Opinion
Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 6, 2002No. 00-55521PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the application of copyright law to the vast world of the internet and internet search engines. The plaintiff, Leslie Kelly, is a professional photographer who has copyrighted many of his images of the American West. Some of these images are located on Kelly’s web site or other web sites with which Kelly has a license agreement. The defendant, Arriba Soft Corp., 1 operates an internet search engine that displays its results in the form of small pictures rather than the more usual form of text. Arriba obtained its database of pictures by copying…
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