Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 7, 2003 @04:39PM from the very-kind-of-them dept.

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."

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Re:A bad decision by child_of_mercy · 2003-09-07 17:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

GPL is a defensive copyright.

if we abolished all copyright (and patents) completely then we wouldn't need GPL.

Therefore it is not inconsistent to be against copyright and for GPL copyleft.

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Re: WELCOME! by Black+Parrot · 2003-09-07 17:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

> I, for one, welcome our new Xenu overlords.

s/Xenu/Dutch/

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When I first read this... by brunes69 · 2003-09-08 00:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I thought it said
Dutch court rules that thinking is legal in Scientology case
I was like "man, these whackos are nuttier than I thought".
It seems I was mistaken.. oh wait... nevermind.