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A German court has ruled that search engines deep linking directly to news stories is against EU law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The law in question is the “Database Directive,” a piece of European Union legislation that grants copyright protection to database creators for “selecting and arranging” the information contained in a database, even if the creator does not hold the copyrights on the collected information.
\nThe directive also protects against the “unfair extraction” of materials contained in a database, specifically mentioning downloading or hyperlinking as examples of prohibited extraction methods. <\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A German court has ruled that search engines deep linking directly to news stories is against EU law. 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