Google Cache copyright case
p2p news / p2pnet: Google doesn’t infringe copyright law when it copies websites, stores the copies, and transmits them to Internet users as part of its Google Cache feature, a federal district court in Nevada has ruled.
Author and lawyer Blake Field brought the copyright infringement lawsuit against Google after it automatically copied and cached a story he’d posted on his web site.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) wasn’t involved but says the decision makes it clear fair use covers new digital uses of copyrighted materials.
"The ruling should also help Google in defending against the lawsuit brought by book publishers over its Google Library Project, as well as assisting organizations like the Internet Archive that rely on caching," says the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann.
January 26th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
What about the Google feature of changing the format of a file from Acrobat PDF to HTML, without the copyright owner’s authorization?
Is this not republishing?
I think that technically it is infringement but because it does not hurt anyone financially, no one has objected. Does not hurt financially… Does this ring a bell?