Re: The legal status of linking and EC consultation

There is other related TAG work in this area
See http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-publishing-linking-20130430/
and my blog based on this work: http://malhotrasahib.blogspot.com/2013/07/linking-and-law.html
and Larry Masinter's blog: http://masinter.blogspot.com/2013/07/linking-and-law-transclusion-of-blog.html
All the best, Ashok

On 1/14/2014 9:04 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> The European Commission is holding a Public Consultation on the review
> of the EU copyright rules:
> http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/index_en.htm
>
> This consultation includes at least one question that's relevant to a
> TAG finding:
>
> The question:
>
> 11. Should the provision of a hyperlink leading to a work or other
> subject matter protected under copyright, either in general or under
> specific circumstances, be subject to the authorisation of the
> rightholder?
>
> ...seems relevant to http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking.html .
>
> The next question:
>
> 12. Should the viewing of a web-page where this implies the temporary
> reproduction of a work or other subject matter protected under
> copyright on the screen and in the cache memory of the user’s
> computer, either in general or under specific circumstances, be
> subject to the authorisation of the rightholder?
>
> ...might be of interest to the TAG as well.
>
> Additionally, parts "Limitations and exceptions in the Single Market"
> and "Disabilities" might be of interest to WAI.
>
> It seems to me it would be appropriate for the TAG to submit a
> response at least to question 11. Responses are due by February 5th.
>

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