Google has lost two trials in Germany

Google has lost two trials of copyright infringement in Germany, passes Bloomberg. Photographer Michael Bernhard, and holds the rights to some of the comics Thomas Horne said that the search engine can not demand to show their materials in the search results.

Representatives of Google said that search engine shows reduced copies of the images. Nevertheless, the court agreed with the plaintiffs. According to the judge, not so important that the picture has become less and its approval is lower than the original. In any case, new works in this way will not be created. According to existing rules Google must agree on the use of images with copyright.

Decisions by the court could be appealed. While not known whether lawyers filed an appeal, and Google will be whether the new claims. At sites in the blast zone. De Google has more than 80 million images.

Google is not the first time loses the courts in Germany. For example, in June 2008, Google had to abandon the trademark Gmail in the country. Its owner is the German Daniel Girsh. He sudilsya with Google for trademark Gmail three years.