Following Godfrey, one might have expected the Court to hold that Google was a common law publisher. However, Eady J said that, even if an ISP is notified of a complaint (as Google had been in this case) it did not immediately convert the ISP’s status or role into that of a “common law publisher”. In particular Eady J thought it was significant that, regardless of whether it had been notified or not, Google did not take any positive step, technically, to maintain access to the offending content.