Perfect 10 Announces Federal Judge Grants Injunction Against Google.BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- A Federal Court Judge has granted in part a preliminary Injunction motion brought by Perfect 10 Magazine against Google, enjoining Google from copying and displaying "thumbnail" versions of Perfect 10 copyrighted images via Google Image Search Google Image Search is a search service created by Google which allows users to search the Web for image content. The feature was originally announced in December 2001. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, , according to Perfect 10. "We are very gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that the Court ruled that Perfect 10 is likely to succeed on a key part of its claims against Google," said Norm Zada, a former Stanford, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , and Columbia University professor and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Computer Science Research Staff Member who began publishing Perfect 10 Magazine in 1997. While the Court enjoined Google from displaying Perfect 10 images via Google Image Search, it declined, however, to enjoin To direct, require, command, or admonish. Enjoin connotes a degree of urgency, as when a court enjoins one party in a lawsuit by ordering the person to do, or refrain from doing, something to prevent permanent loss to the other party or parties. Google's linking to other websites that infringe Perfect 10 images. Zada indicated that Perfect 10 intends to appeal this portion of the Court's ruling, and that once all the evidence is unearthed, Perfect 10 is confident that it will ultimately prevail on the linking portion of the case as well. The parties are currently involved in discovery disputes regarding many issues related to the secondary liability portion of the case, including evidence similar to that which is being sought by the U.S. Government; namely, what percentage of Google's traffic and business is due to searches for adult content. This discovery is being sought by Perfect 10 to test its contention that Google, while claiming to "do no evil," under the guise of being a search engine, is substantially benefiting from a massive misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of adult images. According to Perfect 10, these images range from thousands of the most tasteful images from Perfect 10, Playboy, nude Hollywood stills, and topless supermodels, to extremely explicit images including images involving bestiality Bestiality See also Perversion. Asterius Minotaur born to Pasiphaë and Cretan Bull. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 34] Leda raped by Zeus in form of swan. [Gk. Myth. . Perfect 10 is represented by Russell Frackman of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp (310-312-3119), Jeffrey Mausner of Berman, Mausner, and Resser (310-473-3333), and Daniel Cooper, General Counsel of Perfect 10, Inc. (310-205-9817). |
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