Our client, Google, was sued for copyright infringement when an artist sued New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (among others) in connection with the allegedly unauthorized use of the artists’s painting on a limited number of copies of Friedman’s best-selling book, The World Is Flat. Google was named as a defendant because thumbnail images of the book cover could be found through the “Google Images” search service. The plaintiff voluntarily dismissed all claims against Google following our presentation regarding the Image Search technology and controlling precedent.