Thumbnails are Fair Use

On 2 January 2008, in Intellectual Property, by Peter Smythe

Recently, the Uni­ted Sta­tes Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cir­cuit ruled in Per­fect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al, (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 27843) that Google’s use of thumb­nail ima­ges of Per­fect 10’s ima­ges cons­ti­tu­ted fair use under the Uni­ted Sta­tes Copy­right Act. Per­fect 10 mar­kets and sells copy­righ­ted ima­ges of nude models. In […]