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Originally Posted by theducks
Hyperlinks (hyperlinking) would be a Patent
This IP thing has gotten absurd.
Did Ernest Hemingways estate issue a letter of permission to use the text on that page you linked to?
How does hyperlinking to a complete Page deprive the content owner?
In the regular world, this is just called a 'referral': "Go see Mike at the corner garage". Is my mouth next to be under attack by lawyers?
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Not in the US.
That much is settled law.
Things are different elsewhere.
Again, the core idea of copyright is different on both sides of the pond; in the US copyright exists to serve the public while elsewhere it exists to serve the creator. Which is why fair use is so broad in the US and restricted to legally enumerated cases elsewhere. Here the copyright holder has to prove a violation instead of the target having to identify a chapter and verse justification.
Check this:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/1...her-clickbait/
I'm not as sanguine about it as Nate as I can easily see it happening as part of the low intensity economic war the EU has been waging against the tech giants for the last two decades and more. GE, Boeing, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon... at one time or another laws and legal rulings have been issued with the sole purpose of harming those and others. Copyrighting links fits right in with the snippet proposal and the Spanish liniing fees.