Parker v. Google. Google maintains USENET, a collection of online bulletin boards. It also, as you may have heard, operates a search engine.

Parker posted part of his copyrighted book on USENET, then sued Google for copyright violations and numerous other offenses for (a) archiving USENET files; and (b) linking to these files in response to search requests.

Held: Get outa here. For more learned analysis, see C|Net News.