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Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the link-this dept.

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."

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  1. this is absolutely bs by lingqi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

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