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Search engines rarely take the flak for the materials they dredge up, but the founder and publisher of Perfect 10, a pornographic magazine, is suing Microsoft for turning up links to sites that steal the magazine’s intellectual property. Norm Zada filed his claim against the software goliath on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Central California. At issue are thumbnails churned up by Microsoft’s image search. Since the… Read More

U.S. District Judge Howard Matz has ruled in favor of adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 in its copyright suit against internet search engine Google. Perfect 10 claimed that Google's image search feature infringed on its copyrights and harmed Perfect 10′s effects to market thumbnail-sized images for cell phones and other portable devices. In his ruling, Matz found that, “despite the enormous public benefit that… Read More