Adult website publisher Perfect 10 filed late Wed. for a prelimin...
Adult website publisher Perfect 10 filed late Wed. for a preliminary injunction against Google, charging copyright infringement of its images in search results. Perfect 10’s last suit against a search engine hit Amazon.com’s A9 (WID July 5 p1); the…
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company originally sued Google in Nov. (WID Nov 26/04 p3) and unsuccessfully sued Visa and Mastercard on charges of “contributory and vicarious” infringement for business with rivals alleged to infringe (WID Nov 17/04 p2). Google continues to display over 3,000 Perfect 10 copyrighted images, despite 35 notices from Perfect 10 covering 6,500 infringing URLs, the firm said. “Google’s extraordinary gain in market cap… is more due to their massive misappropriation of intellectual property than anything else,” founder Norm Zada said. He added that “as many as 96%” of Google search results for Perfect 10 go to AdSense partners infringing Perfect 10 images.