Deep Links Together With Deep Cover

Danish deep linking example

is grateful to Edwin Jacobs of Law & Justice Blog for tipping him off that the Danish Maritime together with Commercial Court has found that deep linking (linking direct to a page or icon inside a webpage, rather than to the homepage) is non illegal. Ofir.dk, a spider web portal, deep linked to the Home estate agency. Although the conclusion is express to it facts, it appears that the courtroom brand full general comments inwards favour of deep linking equally a desirable characteristic of the cyberspace together with search engines. Also, the courtroom confirmed that Home’s online database did non count equally a database for the purposes of the Database Directive.

thinks this conclusion is right. Deep linking is indeed useful inwards damage of effective dissemination of information, equally long equally it is non used inwards a deceptive manner.


Footballers orgy - a copyright development

The Press Gazette reports that footballer Ashley Cole is thinking of adding a copyright claim to his libel activity against The Sun together with the News of the World. The News of the World claimed that 2 Premiership footballers, a participant together with a mobile band ready to vibrate were involved inwards an ‘orgy’ only gave no information that could position the three. The Sun after ran a storey concerning the appointment band Ashley Cole has given to his fiancé which included references to a mobile band ready to vibrate. The News of the World hence ran an obscured photograph said to position ane of the footballers together with the musicians. The editor of an online word service Pink News (proprietor, ane Benjamin Cohen, of the judicial review of Nominet fame) hence tracked downwardly together with published what he claims is the master copy version of the photograph via an online icon search adjacent to the motion painting published past times News of the World. The motion painting was found on the website of Choice FM DJ, DJ Masterstepz. DJ Masterstepz is straightaway suing the News of the World. His solicitors said:

"Although Masterstepz was non named inwards the articles, the fashion of publication has led to his beingness identified equally the DJ alleged to stimulate got been involved. The articles made work of a photograph of Masterstepz amongst footballer Ashley Cole, taken from the Choice FM radio station website, together with crudely pixillated inwards an endeavor to conceal their identities."

asks: (i) does the human activity of pixilation practise a novel copyright function (albeit ane which depends on infringing or hence other work)? together with (ii) practise nosotros stimulate got a moral correct to integrity example on our hands?