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EU Court Finds That Web Browsing Doesn't Violate Copyright Law

NEWS ANALYSIS: The European Union Courts of Justice throws out a convoluted copyright case in which a publisher claimed that the act of looking at material published on the Internet was actually illegal copying.

A decision on June 5 by the European Courts of Justice that the act of browsing an Internet site does not constitute a copyright violation may sound obvious. But this concept isn't necessarily clear cut in the field of copyright law, even in the United States.

In this particular case, a group of newspaper publishers decided that the act of sending story links to third parties violated the copyright to those stories because the people who then viewed those pages were making an illegal copy on their computer screens and browser caches.

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http://www.eweek.com/cloud/eu-court-finds-that-web-browsing-doesnt-violate-copyright-law.html#sthash.xogm6SYd.dpuf