The German blogsphere is buzzing about the new opinion handed down by a court in Hamburg, finding Google’s image search infringing. The court agreed with the copyright holder of comics images, and held that the unauthorized display of the images as thumbnails on the search result pages violated his rights.
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German Court Finds Google’s Image Search Infringing
by Zohar Efroni, posted on October 14, 2008 - 6:29am
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