> Sounds reasonable, although IANAL.  How ever, it must be noted (and this is as
> true of p.b.i as it is of The Google) that an implied permission to index a work
> does not imply permission to /use/ it.

IANAL either, but common sense would dictate you area allowed to do 
certain things with it otherwise the internet wouldn't work. ie you have 
permission to retrieve the image data from the server, store it in 
various caches along the way (including locally), convert it to a format 
that is convenient for you to visualise (normally to raw bitmap data), 
optionally scale the image, and then send it to an electronic display 
device for a period of time.

> Posters have often given explicit permission to use images as wallpapers, for
> example, but this would seem to fall under Fair Use or Fair Dealing in many
> countries, anyway.

I don't think such explicit permission would be necessary, if it was 
then I'll just write an extension to Firefox to maximise the window, 
hides the toolbars, remains behind all other windows, starts on windows 
login and sets the homepage to the address of my "wallpaper" (which of 
course will be stored locally in my web cache). In fact I may write my 
own slimline web browser to accomplish this more efficiently. Maybe then 
MS will buy it and include it in all versions of Windows :-)

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