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“Does framing or embedding a third-party copyrighted image stored on an external server violate the copyright owner's public display right?”
The 'Server Test': Infringement of the public display right requires that the copyrighted file physically reside on the defendant's server. Providing HTML embed links or iframes is not a display.
The Server Test holds that a website owner does not display a copy of an image by embedding or linking to it from another website, unless the image is actually stored on the defendant's own web server.
Rejects the Server Test, holding that embedding an image into a webpage directly infringes the public display right if the webpage causes the image to be shown to the user, regardless of which server hosts the file.
Mass computational intermediate copying of full works is transformative fair use if the public output consists of metadata, search indexing, or non-substituting snippets.
If the ultimate commercial deployment of the technology serves to generate outputs that compete in the same expressive marketplace, intermediate copying defenses cannot insulate the pipeline.
Information collection, analysis, and display are inherently abstract ideas; software claims that do not invent new computer hardware fail § 101.
Software claims that improve specific computer operations (such as a self-referential table structure or automated rule sets) are patent-eligible at Step 2A without needing hardware changes.