Not a lawyer, but from how I understand it the German courts argued that if you don't use any technology to prevent web crawlers from accessing the pictures on

Not a lawyer, but from how I understand it the German courts argued that if you don't use any technology to prevent web crawlers from accessing the pictures on your website you need to accept that they are used for preview images (what the Google picture search technically is) as this is a usual use case. -> here is the actual judgement though: https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&nr=51998&pos=0&anz=1 https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/do...