Men’s magazine, Perfect 10, has issued a lawsuit this week against Google under the grounds of copyright infringement. Currently, the company displays nude pictures under its search results that are property of Perfect 10. The company’s founder, Norm Zada, insists that most traffic to search engines is sex-related and that Google’s display of such images is purposefully used to “draw massive traffic to its website, which it is converting into hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising revenue.” Read the full article at Google Sued Over Nude Pics
Earlier this year, a similar suit was filed against Google Print, a Google feature that displays books online. These types of suits raise the question of intellectual property rights in the face of 21st Century technology, like internet search engines. But the issue is not as clear-cut as it may seem. For example, as noted by Heartland Institute, Google Print “has a ‘further purpose’ and ‘different character’ than the books it indexes. Its value is not derived from the creativity of book authors, but from the innovation of its engineers.” You can read the rest of this article at: Google Print and Copyright Law
