Category snippeting

ECJ litigation proves that publishers are lying about „not wanting to tax hyperlinks“ 08/09/2016 by Till Kreutzer

Stakeholders:

EPC
European publishers

Tags:

Hyperlinks
embedding
link tax
snippeting

Licence:

Creative Commons

Today the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that linking to a work that has been uploaded illegally on the Internet might infringe copyright. The case was pushed by, inter alia, a publisher whose association EPC claims that the European request for a neighbouring right does not concern hyperlinking at all.