Question: Plaintiff Perfect 10 is a corporation that ran a subscription Web site featuring nude pictures of natural adults. Perfect 10 brought a copyright-infringement action against

Plaintiff Perfect 10 is a corporation that ran a subscription Web site featuring nude pictures of "natural" adults. Perfect 10 brought a copyright-infringement action against Google, Inc., and Amazon, Inc., on the basis of their display of thumbnail images on search pages. An image search on Google provides pages of thumbnail pictures-reduced-size, lower-resolution images than on the original Web page. Moreover, Google's results will display the pictures on any other sites that are illegally displaying Perfect 10's copyrighted images. Perfect 10 argued that this copying, distribution, and display of its images infringed upon its copyright. The defendants argued that their use of the images fell within the fair use doctrine because the images were not full size or full resolution. The plaintiff moved for an injunction to prevent the display of its images on Google's search engine, based on its copyright claims. How do you think the court ruled? Why? Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc., 416 F. Supp. 2d 828 (C.D. Cal. 2006).

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