Arriba Soft
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Arriba Soft
Arriba Soft said the use of thumbnail images in an Internet search engine did not violate the copyright of the producer of the original work. The California court's willingness to rule against the Arriba Soft precedent under a different set of facts was encouraging to the publishers' group, as was the judge's statement that the public benefit of Google's search engine does not necessarily outweigh the rights of copyright holders. Neither the Perfect 10 case nor the Arriba Soft case are direct precedents for the Book Search lawsuits, which were filed in Federal District Court in New York.