Anotheer baseless claim against microsoft.

[Peter]

Yet again Microsoft are being sued by a company and again the case seems baseless.

Perfect 10 (a porn related company) are currently trying to sue microsoft because their MSN search engine indexes sites that contain trademarked images.:-

In a case that could have broad implications for the search industry, a publisher of soft-core pornographic magazines and Web sites has sued Microsoft for copyright infringement.

Norm Zada, founder and publisher of Perfect 10, claims that the software maker's MSN search engine violates his copyrights by linking to third party sites that show unauthorized copies of his images.

"They're linking to sites that are stealing every imaginable copyright out there," said Zada, in an interview.

A former Stanford professor and IBM employee, Zada is the son of Lofti Zadeh, the famed computer scientist who helped invent fuzzy logic.

Zada filed the copyright infringement action against Microsoft on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Central California.

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These lawsuits against Microsoft are just getting insane. Microsoft can not in anyones book be held responsible for what other sites host. Nor can they be expected to ensure that sites do not contain trademarked images.

They have already tried bringing such cases against Amazon and Google and lost both. The only people who seem to actually gain from cases like this are Lawyers. Surely the lawyers should have a responsibility to ensure their clients are not seeking damages on a baseless claim.