Billions of users across the globe, millions of websites and companies benefit from services that make information available - be it text, video, audio or visual information. Our aim has always been to help users discover this kind of information as quickly and relevantly as possible. Earlier today the German Supreme Court - the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) - issued the written grounds for an important decision (“Vorschaubilder II”) around image search and copyright, encouraging us in our approach.here ): a copyright holder who makes its work available online without implementing any technical protections against the copying of the work as a thumbnail (e.g. by applying robots exclusion standards) gives its consent to search engines to display the work in the form of a thumbnail. The court expressly broadened its previous jurisdiction now: if a copyright holder has allowed a licensee to display protected works online, the search engine can also rely on the consent of that licensee. With this decision the court has confirmed Google’s long standing position that providing thumbnails in its search results is in line with copyright law.Posted by Dr. Arnd Haller, Legal Director, North- and Central Europe
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