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Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-what-you-link dept.

Ubi_NL writes "In yesterday's ruling of Playboy (via publisher Sanoma) vs Dutch blog Geenstijl, the court ruled that hyperlinking to copyrighted material was itself infringement of copyright. The court ordered the blog to remove all links to the infringing links (court ruling in Dutch). How this ruling fits into the supreme court ruling that hyperlinks cannot by themselves infringe copyright is still to be discussed, possibly in an appeal."

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  1. Ah, the Dutch... by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    And farting in bed can constitute an oven.

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