[Infowarrior] - European Copyright Society Says Hyperlinks (And Framing) Should Not Be Infringing

[Richard Forno]

European Copyright Society Says Hyperlinks (And Framing) Should Not Be Infringing

from the good-for-them dept

The Spanish Pirate Party points us to a recently released opinion by the European Copyright Society concerning whether or not hyperlinks themselves may be infringing. The paper was written by 19 European legal scholars, concerning a specific case before the European Court of Justice, Case C-466/12 Svensson, which is yet another case of a news aggregator being sued for daring to link its customers to relevant articles. The reporter, Mr. Svensson, argues that even though the aggregator, Retriever, only posted links, they were "making available" the work. The European Copyright Society is not buying it, noting that hyperlinking is much more akin to a footnote:....

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130218/00185922010/european-copyright-society-says-hyperlinks-framing-should-not-be-infringing.shtml

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