United States Ninth Circuit

The creation and use of "thumbnails," miniature versions of images, in a search engine falls within the fair use doctrine, however, the display of the same full-sized image in the search engine held to be a violation of photographer's exclusive right to publicly display his works.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2002
• Published 02/06/2002

Judges

• Before B. FLETCHER, T.G. NELSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles D. Ossola,Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellant., Steven Krongold, Arter and Hadden, Irvine, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Victor S. Perlman, American Society of Media Phographers, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, for amici curiae National Music Publishers' Association., Laura W. Brill and Elliot Brown, Irell & Manella, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for amici curiae AltaVista Co., Google, Inc., and Yahoo!   Inc., Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Judith B. Jennison, Perkins Coie LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.