Google Image Search sentenced to copyright infringement in Germany

Google recently lost a series in Germany, two cases of copyright lawsuits, and its image search function was sentenced to copyright infringement.

Along with the lawsuit occurred in the District Court of Hamburg, Germany. Michael Bernhard told a photographer prosecution Google's image search copyright infringement, saying that in order to display a thumbnail preview in the form of his photograph. Hamburg District Court ruled that the fact that the establishment of the infringement Google: Despite the thumbnail pictures much smaller than the original, and the adoption of very low-resolution display, but that does not change the fact that its infringement. In the use of thumbnail photos, and does not take into any creative, so they need to use with the consent of the copyright holder's consent.

And another lawsuit from a person called Thomas Horn, he agreed to prosecute without a Google search results displayed in his own the copyright of some of the cartoons.

For Google's Web site and the like, and how to allow users to share copyrighted works at the same time, and the copyright holder of the rights and interests of balance, the industry has been a controversial topic. Google Germany spokesman Stefan Keuchel areas of the court's decision not to give any comments.