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Perfect 10 v. Google provides settles the fair use issues connected with thumbnail copying for image search engines.
In Perfect 10 v. Google, Google responded to Perfect 10 that the framed images were not Google's displays. Google was presenting a link that would allow the end user's browser to integrate part of a web page from Google with a portion of the original web page which is transmitted to the end-user from the original website, not from Google.
The Court held that the owner of a computer that does not store and serve the electronic information to a user is not displaying that information, even if such owner in-line links to or frames the electronic information.
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