{"id":529,"date":"2012-06-16T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncjolt.org\/\/?p=529"},"modified":"2020-06-04T20:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:54:27","slug":"perfect-10-and-contributory-liability-can-search-engines-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/perfect-10-and-contributory-liability-can-search-engines-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect 10 and Contributory Liability: Can Search Engines Survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search engines allow millions of users to locate content on the Internet, including content offered by individuals and companies who have infringed upon a copyright holder\u2019s rights. Copyright Law\u2019s contributory infringement doctrine presents a dilemma for search engines like Google, whose services may facilitate the infringement of copyrights by enabling users to locate such content on the Internet. The Ninth Circuit\u2019s recent decision in <em>Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.<\/em> highlights the problems associated with contributory liability doctrine in copyright law in the digital era. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded the case to the district court, holding that \u201creasonable and feasible\u201d means were available to Google, enabling it to block access on its search engine to content that violates a copyright holder\u2019s rights. This recent development illustrates some of the problems of applying the standard of contributory liability to search engines on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engines allow millions of users to locate content on the Internet, including content offered by individuals and companies who have infringed upon a copyright holder\u2019s rights. Copyright Law\u2019s contributory infringement doctrine presents a dilemma for search engines like Google, whose services may facilitate the infringement of copyrights by enabling users to locate such content <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/perfect-10-and-contributory-liability-can-search-engines-survive\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,25,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7823,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/7823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}