Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal

Jstein writes "In a court ruling today Friday, the court in Copenhagen, Denmark ruled in favor of the Danish Newspaper Publisher's Association against the online news aggregator Newsbooster. Thereby deep linking has been ruled illegal for the first time." Currently the story is only in Danish (from Computerworld Denmark, Online). Update: 07/05 23:15 GMT by T : ttyp writes "Here is a link to an English language story about the Danish deep linking case."

Comments

I never really knew what deep linking meant...

[cca93014]

until now:

"Jeg er dybt chokeret. Vi taber på alle punkter, men det er sikkert, at vi kærer til Landsretten, siger han."

I plan

[Anonymous Coward]

on an immediate boycott of all Danish newspapers in response to this tyranny. Who will join me?

Re:I plan

[Anonymous Coward]

we can still watch the swedish bikini team, right?

Re:Also Illegal:

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pointing at a specific location for them right now. And guess which finger I'm using ...

this is absolutely bs

[lingqi]

in real-life terms, it would be the equivalent of:

"look for this and this information in THIS book" would be legal.

"look for this and this informaiton in THIS book, PAGE # xx-yy" would not be legal.

rediculous. -- heh, but it does make writing bibliographies easier -- "information obtained from www.nytimes.com"

Obviously . . .

[vegetablespork]

there's something rotten in Denmark.

I am surprised-

[IWantMoreSpamPlease]

Being Danish myself, I am surprised by this ruling. 99.999% of the time the Danes are the ones with a clear head about all things.

Well, they *are* only human, perhaps this judge has some, ah, non-Danish lineage. This would explain this temporary lapse of judgement.

Re:Sorry is a word not big enough

[Anonymous Coward]

On behalf of all Danes I would like to appoligize for this very poor example of good judgement. Sorry.

Thanks. You're a Great Dane.

Re:you are anonymous because you are a lier

[amRadioHed]

But to be on the safe side, the company's lawyer advises that "while we encourage links to the Dallas Morning News site, we must request that they all go to the homepage of the site, and not directly to any interior content. If needed, you can provide with your link info on how to find the specific article of interest once they are on the homepage. We trust that this clarifies our position."

I suppose that's not too unreasonable a request.

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