Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case

touretzky writes "The Court of Appeal in The Hague today rejected all of Scientology's claims in appeal in Scientology's action against XS4ALL, Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers. As a result, Karin Spaink's website, which Scientology sought to remove from the Internet based on copyright claims, is entirely legal in the Netherlands. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of which said that linking to material that infringed a copyright was itself actionable. The other ruling said that ISPs that failed to act on credible notification of a copyright violation could be held liable for that. The Appeals Court felt that this was too vague a standard, and thus posed a threat to free speech. More info at ScientologyWatch.org."

Comments

All religion

[Anonymous Coward]

is a mind yolk for the ignorant and easily influenced. Scientology is scary even compared to the rest of those nut jobs.

Re:A bad decision

[cozman69]

You must be a retard, because you obviously don't have simple comprehension skills. The case was about LINKING to copyrighted material, not actually hosting it on the internet. RTFA, dumbass.

In Soviet Russia

[MikeCapone]

Scientology makes sense...

Re:"Confidential" nature of religious documents?

[DNS-and-BIND]

I've noticed lately that religious intolerance has made a real comeback, especially among Leftists. What happened to disagreement with tolerance?

Re:A bad decision

[Sphere1952]

It might be copyright infrigement, but I have every moral right to do it anyway. If I post the entire album I am engaging in non-commercial free speech -- even if my objective is to bring ruination to a commercial entity.