Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 21, 2007
Access Confusion
Focus Column - Timothy Martin - A recent 9th Circuit ruling keeps Google and other search engines from liability for the gateways they may provide to illegal behavior.
By Timothy Martin
In Perfect 10 Inc. v. Google Inc., 2007 DJDAR 6903 (9th Cir. May 16, 2007), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Google's search engine for images does not engage in direct or vicarious copyright infringement, and the panel remanded the case to the lower court for further fact finding on other issues. In reaching this result, the 9th Circuit examined and addressed the inherent ...
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