Field v. Google, Inc District Court Ruling Pleases Defenders of Property Rights

Defenders of Property Rights Calls Nevada District Court Ruling 'A Groundbreaking Step in the New Information Marketplace'

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Defenders of Property Rights, a public- interest legal foundation that works to protect property owners' rights, applauded the recent ruling of Field v. Google, Inc., No. CV-S-04-0413-RCJ-LRL by the Nevada U.S. District Court in which it affirmed that the common internet search tool practice of caching the content of the World Wide Web does not violate copyright law. Nancie G. Marzulla, President of Defenders of Property Rights, called the decision "a groundbreaking step in the new information market place."

"We always knew questions of property rights would arise during the current clash between Old Media and New Media," stated Ms. Marzulla. "This ruling goes a long way toward defining fair use in this new information-based environment."

Finding the practice in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Field decision helps resolve a key copyright issue that has plagued some of America's fastest-growing innovators and businesses including Google, Yahoo! and others.

The ruling will impact future interpretations of "fair use," especially in light of a lawsuit filed against Google over the search engine innovator's book search product, which we understand uses cached information to allow web searchers to view snippets from within the texts of millions of searchable books.

"This decision certainly bodes well for the Google Book Search case," concluded Ms. Marzulla. "The court's reasoning in the Field case applies with even greater force in the Google Book Search context."

Defenders of Property Rights was founded in 1991 to counterbalance the governmental threat to private property as a result of a broad range of regulations. We believe that society can achieve important social objectives such as protection of our environment and preservation of our national heritage without destroying private property rights or undermining free market principles.

Source: Defenders of Property Rights

CONTACT: Matthew Kandrach of Defenders of Property Rights,
+1-202-822-6770, or Matt@yourpropertyrights.org

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