- From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:11:03 +0200
- To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
Le 12 avr. 2011 à 02:33, Martin J. Dürst a écrit : > On 2011/04/12 5:29, Rigo Wenning wrote: >> 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. To me as well, this is great news! I dare say I'm proud to live in Germany if I understand it all well! >> 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? Martin, it does mean "to" foreign web-pages because "auf fremde Internetseiten" is an accusative hence means a direction. It should have said |auf fremden Internetseiten" if it meant a location. Pretty subtle ;-)! paul
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