Ruling
The District Court, Jones, J., held that:
- Operator did not directly infringe on author's copyrighted works;
- Author granted operator implied license to display “cached” links to web pages containing his copyrighted works;
- Author was estopped from asserting copyright infringement claim against operator;
- Fair use doctrine protected operator's use of author's works; and
- Search engine fell within protection of safe harbor provision of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Summary judgment for operator.
The court held that "Field decided to manufacture a claim for copyright infringement against Google in the hopes of making-money from Google's standard practice." The court then went on to rule in Google's favor on all of its defense theories.
Read more about this topic: Field V. Google
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