Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google, Inc.(487 F.3d 701, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 11420, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).

Facts:Perfect 10, Inc. has a website on which it sells copyrighted images of nude models.Subscribers pay a monthly fee to view these photos.Perfect 10 also sells smaller images for use on cell phones.Sometimes, Google's image search engine displays thumbnails of Perfect 10's photos.(Thumbnails are low-resolution images measuring roughly 2 inches x 1.5 inches.)These thumbnails could also be used on cell phones, although there was no evidence that they had been so far.

Perfect 10 filed suit alleging that Google was violating copyright law by reproducing the thumbnail images.The district court issued an injunction prohibiting Google from displaying Perfect 10's photos.Google appealed, alleging that the thumbnails were fair use.

You be the Judge:Do Google's thumbnail displays of Perfect 10's photos violate copyright law?Are they a fair use? Question: Didn't Google copy Perfect 10's work?

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