Field v. Google Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the copyright holder must both know of the infringing use and encourage that use for the court to find an implied license
• noting that consent may be 5 inferred “based on silence where the copyright holder knows of the use and 6 encourages it”
• stating that implied license may be found “where the copyright holder engages in conduct from which [the] other [party] may properly infer that the owner consents to his use”
• considering both defendant’s good faith in promptly removing the infringing content and plaintiff’s bad faith in ginning up the litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).