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Authored by wayneborean on May 14, 2015 0:22:51 GMT
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Authored by wol on May 14, 2015 17:33:27 GMT
I haven't read it all properly, but the comments (and this was my initial reaction too) was that this merely allowed linking to the original content. So if the original site took it down, then it would automatically disappear from all the other sites too ...
I wonder how this impacts on the Scottish newspaper case from a fair few years ago. One paper "copied" loads of articles from another newspaper's site by deep-linking them. The Judge's ruling disposed of the case in a very matter-of-fact and fair manner. There was no copyright violation, because the second paper was merely redirecting readers to the first paper's site. But it was a blatant case of "passing off", because the readers of the second paper had no way of telling that the stories actually belonged to the first paper. So the second paper got done, but for a rather different offence than the one they had cleverly cheated on.
Cheers, Wol
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