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Deutsche Welle:

Google might reign as the unchallenged king of German search engines, but a lawsuit over the company's popular image search feature brings into question the rights of German artists in the Internet age.
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Thanks for posting this - I noticed it on ARSTechnica a little while ago and have been thinking about it. I am now wondering what effects this may have - for instance, www.google.com is just below www.google.de, traffic-wise, according to alexa. Will German users simply utilize the google.com image search (governed by US law) as a result of the lawsuit?

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