Amazon.com said it opened a non-automated distribution center in ...

Ky. (2), Nev. and Pa. (2). The new center is expected to handle electronics and various other products sold by the e-tail giant. Separately, Amazon and its A9.com search engine subsidiary were sued by publisher Perfect 10 in U.S. Dist. Court, L.A., last week. The publisher of Perfect 10 Magazine and owner of website perfect10.com filed a motion for preliminary injunction against Amazon to stop the latter’s search engine from copying, displaying and distributing Perfect 10’s copyrighted images, mostly consisting of nude women. Perfect 10 Pres. Norm Zada told Consumer Electronics Daily Fri. that his company had already sued Google in Nov. for copyright infringement and other claims as well. He said A9.com, Google and other search engines were routinely displaying his company’s copyrighted material without permission. Zada said he decided to start taking legal action because his company had now “lost $35 million playing by the rules.” Perfect 10 claimed that search engines including A9.com and Google “are displaying hundreds of thousands of adult images, from the most tame to the most exceedingly explicit, to draw massive traffic to their websites, which they convert into ad revenue or sales revenue.” It complained that, “under the guise of being ’search engines,’ Amazon and Google now display, free of charge, thousands of copies of the best images from Perfect 10, Playboy, nude scenes from major movies, nude images of supermodels, as well as, on the explicit side, thousands of images of animals having sex with humans.” Perfect 10 said it had sent “numerous notices of infringement (34 to Google and 7 to Amazon) but both continue to display over 2,500 copies of more than 1,000 of Perfect 10’s best copyrighted images without authorization.” Amazon’s spokeswoman declined to comment, saying “we haven’t yet seen a copy of the complaint.”