{"id":3090,"date":"2014-02-14T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2014-02-14T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:06:48","slug":"hyperlinking-is-not-copyright-infringement-eu-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/hyperlinking-is-not-copyright-infringement-eu-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly Exhumed writes &quot;Does publishing a hyperlink to freely available content amount to an illegal communication to the public and therefore a breach of creator&#8217;s copyrights under European law? After examining a case referred to it by Sweden&#8217;s Court of Appeal, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled today that no, it does not. The Court found that &#8216;In the circumstances of this case, it must be observed that making available the works concerned by means of a clickable link, such as that in the main proceedings, does not lead to the works in question being communicated to a new public.&#8217;&quot; Reader Bart Smit points to the court&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p><div> <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl4d5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/eekxlt\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1dM0hKn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/hGaSy6\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl259\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Share on Google+\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/wlvgJy\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1dM0hKr\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1dM0jSC\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl4d9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1dM0kFS\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl2lq\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl4dd\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1dM0k8W\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl4df\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl2ls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl4dh\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1dM0kG0\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/NHl4tv\"><\/p>\n<p>via https:\/\/ift.tt\/1cAnsHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly Exhumed writes &quot;Does publishing a hyperlink to freely available content amount to an illegal communication to the public and therefore a breach of creator&#8217;s copyrights under European law? 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