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Doctrine in United States copyright law

The server test is a doctrine in United States copyright law concerning whether a website directly infringes a copyright owner's exclusive right to display a work by embedding or in-line linking to content stored on another server. Under the test, a website generally does not directly infringe the public display right merely by using HTML instructions to cause a user's browser to retrieve and display an image or other work from a third-party server. The doctrine focuses on whether the defendant stores and transmits a copy of the copyrighted work from its own server. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Server testA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Public Key Encryption with Authorized Equality Test on Outsourced Ciphertexts for Cloud‐Assisted IoT in Dual Server ModelInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Testing ASP. NET Web ApplicationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: An Empirical Test of Warranty Theories in the U.S. Computer Server and Automobile MarketsCited 67 times
  5. Go sideways: Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Copyright aspects of hyperlinking and framingA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Background
  2. Development in Perfect 10
  3. Operation of the test
  4. Application to embedded content
  5. Judicial disagreement
  6. Scholarly commentary
  7. Fifth Circuit decision
  8. Practical effect

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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