amazon.com and copyrights

**Larry Maxcy l*@earthlink.net**

There has beed discussion earlier about amazon.com listing for sale 
material done by garden writers, without their knowledge. While the 
subject matter in the suit described in this Associated Press story is 
somewhat different than what we do best, the principle seems to be the same.

Larry Maxcy

Thursday, June 30, 2005 · Last updated 8:13 p.m. PT

Adult Web site sues Amazon for copyright infringement

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES -- An adult entertainment Web site has sued online retailer 
Amazon, accusing the company and its search engine subsidiary, A9.com, 
of copyright infringement for displaying thousands of the Web site's 
explicit images in response to computer users' searches.

In the lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, 
Beverly Hills-based Perfect 10 Inc. is seeking an injunction against the 
Seattle-based retailer and unspecified damages.

Under U.S. copyright laws, plaintiffs can seek up to $150,000 for each 
instance their copyrights are infringed upon, said Russell Frackman, an 
attorney for Perfect 10.

Amazon.com Inc. spokeswoman Patty Smith said Thursday she couldn't 
comment on the lawsuit because the company hadn't seen it yet.

Perfect 10, which also publishes a magazine, filed a similar suit in 
November against Internet search engine operator Google Inc.

The adult Web site operator claims search engines like Google and A9 
undercut its revenues by giving Web surfers an unauthorized free look at 
its explicit images. The company charges a monthly membership fee of 
$25.50 for its Web site.

Perfect 10 claims it has sent several warning notices to Google and 
Amazon, but both sites continue to display some 2,500 images from 
Perfect 10 and other adult Web sites without permission.

The Google case remains in the discovery stage, Frackman said.

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