United StatesPerfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.
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Decided 3 December 2007 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
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The Ninth Circuit held that Google's thumbnail-sized image search results were highly transformative fair use because they function as pointers to information rather than substitutes for original images. The court also articulated the 'server test': inline linking or framing of images hosted on a third-party server does not constitute copyright infringement by the linker because the linker does not copy or serve the underlying content. This is the foundational authority on linking and framing liability in the Ninth Circuit.
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Linking framing, Snippet reproduction
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CourtListener full-text mirror of 508 F.3d 1146 (this instrument's url)
states "Filed May 16, 2007. Amended Dec. 3, 2007." The original panel opinion, 487 F.3d 701 (filed 2007-05-16), was withdrawn and superseded by 508 F.3d 1146.
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