Perfect 10 sues Google for indexing copy-protected images

Perfect 10 sues Google for indexing copy-protected images

Adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 has sued the search engine giant Google on charges of indexing their copy-protected images and displaying them on their index coupled with Adsense advertisement. They are seeking a preliminary injunction against Google to stop the search giant from allegedly displaying copyright images. The case was filed on Wednesday with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

The company now wants courts to instruct Google to halt immediately copying, displaying and distributing more than 3,000 Perfect 10 photos. The company said in a statement: “Google is directly infringing on our copyrights. They are copying and showing our work on their Web site. They are also placing ads on these Web sites that are infringing on our work.”

Problem started way back in 2001 when the company first noticed their images being made available on the Google Image search engine. They had then only sent notices to the company asking them to discontinue linking to the other sites. Google is yet to respond to these allegations from the company. Perfect 10 is already in controversy with e-commence giant Amazon for similar charges for their A9 search engine.

Google apparently a couple of months back discovered that its search engine was being used to find illegal copy protected content from the Internet. It took certain actions especially in the case of the Matrix movie and removed the content discovered by its team.