UK Supreme Court Rules Web Browsing Does Not Infringe Newspapers’ Copyright

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By: Lisa O'Carroll | The Guardian

The UK supreme court has ruled that readers who open articles via a website link are not breaking the law, overturning the high court's ruling that browsing was a breach of newspaper owners' copyright.

But the supreme court has decided that the copyright issues surrounding web browsing are so important that it has referred the case it was examining to the European Court of Justice to ensure that the ruling applies uniformly across the EU.































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