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Google just lost, successively, two copyright cases in Germany over Image-Search service online.

The first case concerns the german photographer Michael Bernhard who accused the search engine the fact that Google displayed his copyrighted photo on their previews. Thomas Horn, holder of a number of comic copyrights, made the same charges against the American search engine.

Both of them won their cases in the First Instance. "The fact that the images displayed by Google are smaller and in a lower resolution than the original picture matter little", estimated the Court.

For the moment, Google doesn't seem to have communicated much on these cases neither indicate whether they intend to appeal the ruling or not...

Image source : Blogoscoped

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Source(s) :
Google Loses German Copyright Cases Over Image-Search Previews (Bloomberg)

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