Looking for love online

Damian Koh | Feb 23, 2006

We have no statistics and we're probably speculating, but chances are you're more likely to get sued in the land of freedom than in a traditional Asian society. That's what happened to Google's popular image search function when a federal judge ruled that the small thumbnail versions pulled from other Web sites during an image search was likely to violate US copyright law.

So in the, ahem, interest of checking this out for our readers, we did search of Perfect 10 using Google's image search. Even with the SafeSearch turned off and after clicking through the first 20 pages of search results, we didn't find that many exposed pictures, much less nude photos. However, we can't say the same if the search string was changed to "beautiful natural women".

In this unusual tussle between an adult Web site and a prominent Internet firm, the Los Angeles judge said he would award Perfect 10 a preliminary injunction against Google. Both parties have till March 8 to propose the injunction wording. This apparently isn't the first copyright lawsuit Google is facing as reported by Declan McCullagh, a staff writer from CNET News.com.

The full report can be found here.

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