The Google Image Search: Analysis of the court decision by the German Federal Court of Justice

Sascha Klein · Sebastian Kolla · Gatis Cers · Haroon Shafique

2012년 3월 · GRIN Verlag

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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Civil / Private, Trade, Anti Trust Law, Business Law, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Hannover (Rechtsinformatik), language: English, abstract: The amount of available information on the internet has increased enormously throughout the last decade. Accordingly the search engines have improved and enhanced their features as well. One of these features is Google ́s image search which was implemented in 2001. These search engines are an easy way to illustrate images; nevertheless on the downside some copyright law issues occur. The dispute discussed is concerning the lawfulness of image search engines in Germany and was submitted to the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof).