Web hyperlinking to freely available online content does not amount to publishing an illegal communication, says a major new ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Linking to open content cannot communicate it to a new public audience, since the content is already public.
However, the ruling says nothing of the taxing of Web links to open content, a loopy idea proposed by French socialists among others.
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