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Civil Litigation,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Mar. 30, 2018

Stock photo company sues Google

The plaintiff claims Google is propping up its preferred licensors.

A stock photo company has accused Google LLC of leveraging its dominance in the search engine market to provide its licensors a competitive advantage.

Dreamstime.com LLC claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Google's search engine algorithm is biased toward websites that have a licensing agreement with Google. As Google is by far the most used search engine on the internet, Dreamstime claims Google has abused "its monopoly in the...

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