A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Google Inc.’s Web search systems infringe on a publisher’s copyright, a minor victory for the company which faces numerous suits charging that its services trample on the rights of authors.
The eleven claims against Google had included accusations of copyright and trademark infringement, invasion of privacy, negligence, racketeering, abuse of legal process and civil conspiracy, according to the court documents.
Judge Surrick’s ruling found that Google enjoys projection under an exemption to the Communications Decency Act for online service providers acting as an automatic redistributor of published material.
This follows previous “fair use” rulings of a search engine’s right to cache. Right on.
Great just when things where getting real stupid a Judge with some common sence throws water on the fire.
Now if he can only untwist the Digital Rights fiasco we can all be happy.
Okay, how much you want to bet the karmic balance on this will result in the RIAA/MPAA sucessfully bribing congress to make fair use illegal.
Organized crime has been running the RIAA since the 60’s, I love thieves going after copyright violations.
aren’t they already trying to do that?