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Perfect 10: thumbnails in an image search engine

Decision date · 3 December 2007

Context photograph: The Ninth Circuit’s Browning Courthouse, San Francisco.
Context photograph: The Ninth Circuit’s Browning Courthouse, San Francisco. Blackhorsemedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized

The dispute

An image publisher challenged the display of thumbnails and access to full-size images through search results.

The decision

At the preliminary-injunction stage, the appeals court found the thumbnails likely protected by fair use and distinguished linked full-size images.

Source

Ninth Circuit · 508 F.3d 1146

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