Intellectual Property Magazine
Rethinking image rights
Margaret A Esquenet and Mary Kate Brennan explore the uncertainfuture of embedded content and the ‘server test’
Margaret AEsquenet and Mary Kate Brennan - Finnegan
Since 2007, when the Ninth Circuit adoptedthe ‘server test’ in Perfect 10, Inc v Amazon.com, Inc,
1companies and individuals sued for copyright infringement have relied on itsholding that whether a website publisher is directly
liable for copyright infringementturns on whether the image is hosted on the publisher’s own server or isembedded or linked
from a third-party server.