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Dutch Portal Cleared of Copyright Infringement

Posted by michael on from the those-crazy-dutch dept.

CRCates writes "A Dutch court in Haarlem has cleared Techno Design, the operator of Zoekmp3.nl, a music search engine portal, of copyright infringement. The case was launched by BREIN, the Dutch entertainment industry's anti-piracy group. The court ruled that providing links to an MP3 file does not constitute disclosure or publication of contents under Dutch copyright law."

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  1. Napster? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So are services that merely provide indexing and contact data for other systems legal under Dutch law?

    Napster, for one? Sharereactor, etc?

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  2. Re:You have to dig pretty deep... by c0dedude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By that logic the yellow pages is guilty of all gun crime, because they tell you where to get guns.

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  3. Good news for Dutch hosts by Bill_Royle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like Dutch webhosts are the most likely now to be the hosts for copyrighted mp3 sites, provided the mp3 files are held elsewhere. After all, if a website's having to change it's DNS every few weeks as it is booted from one host to the other, it makes sense to just host in a safe haven.

    Still, downloading Mp3's via links sounds so inefficient!

  4. Re:You have to dig pretty deep... by Scarblac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have to dig pretty deep in the law books to find that this is legal...

    Actually, that is daft. It is legal because it is not in the law books at all. It's a good thing the books don't list the finite list of things that are allowed, right?

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  5. google media search? by thepoopman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so will google be adding audio and video searches now that it can back itself up with a court ruling (albeit dutch)?

  6. Re:Good news for Google! by pe1rxq · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually drug figures here (The Netherlands) are lower than most other european countries and certainly lower than in the US. (Both for hard and soft drugs)

    Jeroen

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