<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"The 30-page opinion embraces Google's interpretation of a 12-year-old law that shields Internet services from claims of copyright infringement as long as they promptly remove illegal content when notified of a violation."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So it seems that a judge ruled that if a copyrighted material is removed at the request of the copyright holder, no foul.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; 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