Legal Opinion
Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided February 17, 2006No. CV 04-9484AHMPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PERFECT 10’S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST GOOGLE
MATZ, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The principal two-part issue in this case arises out of the increasingly recurring conflict between intellectual property rights on the one hand and the dazzling capacity of internet technology to assemble, organize, store, access, and display intellectual property “content” on the other hand. That issue, in a nutshell, is: does a search engine infringe copyrighted images when it displays them on an “image search” function in the form of “thumbnails” but…
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