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Canadian Supreme Court Rules Linking Is Not Defamation

Posted by Unknown on from the keep-those-anchors-polite dept.

omega6, joining the legions of accepted submitters, writes "The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that posting links is not the same as posting the actual content, but more similar to a footnote. 'The top court ruled against former Green party campaign manager Wayne Crookes, who argued that posting links to sites with defamatory statements was the same as publishing the defamatory material.'"

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  1. Hmm by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't remember the URL for goatse.cx, or I'd totally post it.

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    which is totally what she said
  2. Finally some sense. by sherriw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hopefully this extends to the fact that linking to pirated content is not piracy.

  3. Aggrigation Sites by arthurpaliden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So then a link to a copyrighted work would just be a foot note and not copyright infringement. Time for all those aggregation sites to move to Canadian ISPs.

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    Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
  4. Re:Which side were the Greens on? by Retardical_Sam · · Score: 5, Informative

    The case had nothing to do with his association to the Green Party, it was in relation to his private business. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/19/pol-scoc-hyperlink.html?cmp=rss