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German Court Rules Against Google?s Result Thumbnails

By Handakte

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Bloomberg reports that Google lost two court cases in Germany over the display of thumbnails in their image search results.

Google?s preview of a picture by German photographer Michael Bernhard violates his copyrights, the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled, his lawyer Matthies van Eendenburg said in an interview today. Thomas Horn, who holds the copyrights on some comics that were displayed in Google search results, won a second case (…)

?It doesn?t matter that thumbnails are much smaller than original pictures and are displayed in a lower resolution,? the court said in its ruling for Bernhard. ?By using photos in thumbnails, no new work is created,? that may have justified displaying them without permission.

(Thomas Horn is the creator of the self-proclaimed ?subversive? goods fashion collection Psykoman, which started in 1988, according to TAZ.de. TAZ mentions that at one time Thomas? best selling item was a design which reused the logo of shoe company ?Puma?, replacing the puma animal with a poodle as a kind of parody.) (…)

Quelle: Blogoscoped vom 13.10.2008

Full post as published by Handakte WebLAWg on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).