<h3 class="story"><span id="title-5393053"><a onclick="return toggle_fh_body_wrap_return(this);" href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/31/125215/11-Word-Extracts-May-Infringe-Copyright-In-Europe" class="datitle">11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe</a> <span class="date">on Friday July 31, @09:42AM</span> <span class="nickname"></span></span>
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<span id="fhtime-5393053">on Friday July 31, @09:42AM</span></strong>
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<strong>from the <strong>dibs-on-copyright-on-"the"</strong> dept.</strong>
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splodus writes <i>"The European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, has ruled that a service <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/07/30/Eleven-Word_Press_Snippets_by_Danish_Firm_May_Violate_Copyright.htm">providing 11-word snippets of newspaper articles could be unlawful</a>.
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. <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/gettext.pl?lang=en&num=79909283C19080005&doc=T&ouvert=T&seance=ARRET&where=%28%29">The full ruling</a> is available at the European Court of Justice Web site."</i></div>
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