[pp.int.general] 11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe

[Felipe Sanches]

11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In
Europe<http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/31/125215/11-Word-Extracts-May-Infringe-Copyright-In-Europe>
on
Friday July 31, @09:42AM
 * Posted by kdawson on Friday July 31, @09:42AM*
*from the dibs-on-copyright-on-"the" dept.*
  court <http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=court>
 splodus writes *"The European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, has
ruled that a service providing 11-word snippets of newspaper articles could
be unlawful<http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/07/30/Eleven-Word_Press_Snippets_by_Danish_Firm_May_Violate_Copyright.htm>.
Media monitoring company Infopaq International searches newspaper articles
and provides clients with a keyword and the five words either side. This
practice was challenged by the DDF, a group representing newspaper
interests, as infringing their members' copyright. The court has referred
the issue back to national courts to determine whether copyright laws in
each country will be subject to the ruling. The full
ruling<http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/gettext.pl?lang=en&num=79909283C19080005&doc=T&ouvert=T&seance=ARRET&where=%28%29>is
available at the European Court of Justice Web site."
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