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Google har anklagats för copyrightbott på grund av detta i både Tyskland och USA: "The court argued that under German copyright law photographs are protected and that there is no "fair use" exception for the conversion of internet photos to "thumbnails". Contrary to this decision, the U.S. Court [...] had ruled in 2002 that posting small, "thumbnail"-sized images of another's photos on a web site is fair use - and therefore not copyright infringement - when done for information-gathering or indexing purposes" (från: grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=04/03/29/1510213&mode=thread där det finns mer intressant om detta för den intresserade.)