Search marketing “expert” Kevin Lee says Perfect 10’s pending intellectual property lawsuit against Amazon.com doesn’t hold much water, but Perfect 10 founder Norm Zada tells XBiz that Lee doesn’t have his facts straight.
Norman Zada, owner and founder of Perfect 10 Magazine and its accompanying website, has filed a motion for preliminary injunction against Amazon.com for copyright infringement. Zada contends that search engines like Google and others are breeding grounds for copyright infringement.
Perfect 10 founder and publisher Norman Zada says Google and other search engines are costing adult companies millions of dollars every year, and now he wants them to pay up.
In one of the first claims of its kind against Google, online adult company Perfect 10 filed a suit against the search engine, claiming it provides surfers with unauthorized links to images of Perfect 10’s nude models.
In a case of particular interest to adult webmasters, a federal court has allowed evidence of “archived” versions of content stored at a third-party website. The pretrial copyright decision was influenced by the Perfect 10 Inc. vs. Cybernet Ventures Inc. decision in 2002.
After suing Visa and MasterCard in January for contributory and vicarious infringement, the owner of Perfect 10 Inc., Norman Zada, saw his case tossed by a judge from the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
After taking a loss of more than $29 million to copyright infringement over the past six years, the owner of Perfect 10 is waging a war against the two largest and most successful credit card companies
