…search engine would have to be as follows: “For a search engine, it would have to be positively confirmed that the search engine knew or ought to have known about…
EU is Canada’s term, life plus 50. The Copyright Term Directives explicitly protect authors who are EU nationals from this truncation of term, but US authors are not so protected….
legislator had in mind in this respect was aggregators of news content, especially internet search engines. Internet search engines regularly make press content available to the public on the internet…
sought to evaluate the status quo of implementation of the Directive, to identify best practices in the Member States, and to consider the potential long- term effects of the term…
photographs and images are published. However, French collecting societies claim that the images presented by the search engines are presented in such a way (in terms of size, quality and…
diligent search, two legal questions arise: 1) what constitutes a ‘good faith’ diligent search, knowing that the law provides no indication as to scope and sources of the search; 2)…
of photographs and images by search engine services. Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of photographs and images, used by search engines such as Google Images in order to facilitate their recognition…
The German Federal Court of Justice rejects liability for image search thumbnails even if they are indexed on websites showing the images without permission as long as other websites did…
…application of copyright laws within technologically changing contexts. “ On 3 April 2012, the Spanish Supreme Court issued a major ruling in favor of the Google search engine (including its…
ads and thus effectively can prohibit the meta search engine operation. After several remarks on how technologically dedicated (real time) meta search engines differ from general search engines like Google…
