Google’s Cache Function does not infringe any Copyright

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An American online author of seduction advice has failed in a copyright action brought against Google. Gordon Roy Parker had accused the search machine of saving his Internet site, as well as Usenet contributions, using the cache function on its servers and then later placing them at the disposal of third parties as search results.

Google’s cache functions acts like an intermediate memory, which could allow sites to be called-up even if they are no longer online directly . The court in Pennsylvania were of the opinion that the automatically-operating memory caused no copyright infringement. The news agency Reuters report that the judges considered the cache function to be a form of redistribution of data. Google operated as an Internet service, transmitting data to users, and in the meantime saved data for this purpose.

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