11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe

splodus writes "The European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, has ruled that a service providing 11-word snippets of newspaper articles could be unlawful. Media monitoring company Infopaq International searches newspaper articles and provides clients with a keyword and the five words either side. This practice was challenged by the DDF, a group representing newspaper interests, as infringing their members' copyright. The court has referred the issue back to national courts to determine whether copyright laws in each country will be subject to the ruling. The full ruling is available at the European Court of Justice Web site."

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Re:Aftermarket lightsâ¦

[furby076]

It's a lightbulb, not custom engine work. With the exception that BMW makes it ridiculously hard to replace (you have to remove the bumper, remove the light casing, disassemble the light case) they are halogen bulbs. The worst that would happen is the lightbulb burns out sooner (it's a lightbulb). Given that, if they said "fine but if yuo come back in 15,000 miles we won't apply the warranty"...obviously if I come back in 40k miles (what the car is at right now) with "hey it burnt out" then the lightbulb lived it's life.

Again, I could understand intense custom mods - but something like this? Luckily the CA fudged the paperwork a bit and spoke to the technician...even the CA thought it was silly.