US and European courts split over fair use
01 February 2009
Managing Intellectual Property
Emily Kirsch and Alexander Klett explore how contradictory European and US decisions on fair use in cases involving Google thumbnails can be instructive in developing your online business
In recent years, Google has been attacked in various countries for alleged violations of copyright law resulting from several features offered by its internet search engines. These matters concerned the use by Google of, among other things, photographs and other graphic elements in condensed form – so-called thumbnails – on Google News, as well as the use of such thumbnails as part of search results generated by the Google image search service....
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