Further to our previous story about Google facing copyright issues with it's new Google Print service, the search engine is also under fire for it's Google Image search, which an adult publisher is claiming breaches copyright. Perfect 10's complaints stem from the images that can be found using Google on websites that are using Perfect 10 content without permission. This same content is also available using Amazon's A9 search.
"They are giving away exactly what we are selling," Norm Zada, the founder of Perfect 10 said. "There is no business that can survive if someone comes along and gives away their product. Google's extraordinary gain in market cap from nothing a few years ago to close to eighty billion dollars, is more due to their massive misappropriation of intellectual property than anything else."
Some might argue that the problem lies not with Google for displaying these results, but with the websites that Google is locating them on. If successful, this case may open the floodgates for other cases against Google that involve copyrighted works. Google recently suspended it's plans to scan copyrighted books for Google Print, choosing to focus on public domain until agreements can be reached with publishers.
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View: Amazon A9 Search
News source: Tech News World
"They are giving away exactly what we are selling," Norm Zada, the founder of Perfect 10 said. "There is no business that can survive if someone comes along and gives away their product. Google's extraordinary gain in market cap from nothing a few years ago to close to eighty billion dollars, is more due to their massive misappropriation of intellectual property than anything else."
Some might argue that the problem lies not with Google for displaying these results, but with the websites that Google is locating them on. If successful, this case may open the floodgates for other cases against Google that involve copyrighted works. Google recently suspended it's plans to scan copyrighted books for Google Print, choosing to focus on public domain until agreements can be reached with publishers.
View: Google View: Amazon A9 Search News source: Tech News World
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Also if its the case that other people have reproduced the sites content on another site after logging in then they are to blame not google.
Okay google do good stuff and bad stuff - im no google fan boy by any means (i want my maximize button in GTalk! lol - another story) but come on this isnt googles fault?
EDIT: does this mean I can sue google as they reproduce the text on my page in the search engine? erm no.. if this was true mo search engines would exist... and then what?... no-one would find these adult sites - along with many more. I think I know who looses in the long run! (would be interesting without search engines to see how much business they lost!)
I would love to be in that court room arguing about this.
EDIT: haha they show the copyrighted material involved around the court room.
It's not Perfect 10 that need to configure robots.txt, because the content is coming from other sites.
Although this is what confuses me; if Google are simply indexing the content of other websites, why are they then going after Google and not the illegal websites?
Stupid pornographers: Tricks are for kids.
Perfect 10's policy that their copyrighted content should not be at any other site apart from theirs is also stupid from a commercial point of view. Imagine if your searched for perfect 10 pictures on google and it returned 0 results! or even if you searched for www.perfect10.com (or whatever is their site's address) and google returned "Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.perfect10.com
* If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.perfect10.com..."
If google did this to protect themselves somehow from any liability they would be suing google for censoring or something like that...
Last edited by 8406 on 29 Aug 2005 - 06:04
Hell they should thank google and amazon...by using their search they can locate and take action against sites stealing their property
Suing for a quick buck is nothing new, but i wish these idiots wouldnt be so transparent about it and at least make the effort to fake some common sense
Bad Neighbor steals your CD and then tells everyone about it
Good Neighbor tells you "hey Bad Neighbor stole your CD! Look here!"
Should you
A) Go after the bad neighbor for stealing your CD
B) Go after the good neighbor telling everyone about the bad neighbor
These morons choose B.
I guess Perfect 10 = their combined IQ.
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