Re: I don't understand all the ramifications, but...
Or promoting a fake website with no legal rights to the images over the owner themself.
But that would mean Google actually taking an interest in the law and complying with it, to give website and copyright owners an easy way to report fake sites, to verify the claims and remove those fake sites and their metadata from the search cache... All that costs money and therefore reduces profits, so as long as court cases, lawyers and compensation claims are lower than following the relevant laws, there won't be any change.