Another storm appears to be brewing in Europe that will impact the ability of many U.S. businesses to freely operate there. According to a leaked draft European Commission Communication, “the Commission will examine whether action is needed on the definition of the rights of ‘communication to the public’ and of ‘making available’,”–direct references to EU case law governing hyperlinks. According to European Parliament member Julia Reda, this means that “ the European Commission is preparing a frontal attack on the hyperlink , the basic building block of the Internet as we know it.”
What is being discussed, essentially, is ancillary copyright. Ancillary copyright includes the right of copyright owners to charge a fee for hyper-linking to and excerpting from their works. From a practical standpoint, this law would affect any news aggregator linking to and excerpting works from European content sources, not just EU-based aggregators.
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2 comments:
Just another way to take the rights of the UK people...
Seems they are doing everyhting they can to make sure anyone who can find wrong doing by these corerations and public officials will soon be an act of criminality...
Hell, here in the US we just passed the TPP which does the same exact thing, if you find wrong doing by a company, and if you release that info and it hurts the company they can sue you for damages and get you tossed in jail...
NOW ISN'T THAT SOMETHING... You go to jail for telling on someone who did criminal acts...
BUT I guess this is all conspiracy right???????? even though it is reality right??????
Actually, hyperlinking is kind of like stealing intellectual property.
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