- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:33:42 +0900
- To: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- CC: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
Hello Rigo, On 2011/04/12 5:29, Rigo Wenning wrote: > Hi Yves, > > please note that the german federal supreme court in civil matters > (Bundesgerichtshof) decided on 14 October 2010 (the motion was published > today) that Links participate in the freedom of expression of the main > document. Without having studied this decision, this seems to make lots of sense. > In the case, a journal article on copyright infringement had linked to a > software that allowed the circumvention of copyright protection mechanisms. > The court decided that if an article, by its content, is protected by freedom > of speech, the links on foreign web pages that prove or complement assertions > of the text are also covered by the freedom of expression out of the main > text. Should this not be "the links *to* foreign web pages"? Otherwise, I'd take it to mean that if a site A, protected by freedom of speech, would have a link to a site B, then the links from site B to sites C, D,... would also be covered by this ruling, and possibly recursively further on. Is this really what was at issue? Regards, Martin.
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