Web browsing is copyright infringement, publishers argue
16 12 2014Europeans may browse the Internet without fear of infringing copyrights, as the EU Court of Justice ruled Thursday in a decision that ends a four-year legal battle threatening the open Internet.
It was the European top court’s second wide-ranging cyber ruling in less than a month. The court ruled May 13 that Europeans had a so-called “right to be forgotten” requiring Google to delete “inadequate” and “irrelevant” data upon requests from the public. That decision is spurring thousands of removal requests.
In this week’s case, the court slapped down the Newspaper Licensing Agency’s (NLA) claim that the technological underpinnings of Web surfing amounted to infringement.
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