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0 pointsbaxtr8y ago0 comments

a) if they’re already „doing it“, tell me: why do we need a law exactly then?

b) do you know how a link works? Any link is usually a preview of content because it has e.g. a title. Where do you draw the line? And what is a commercial site exactly? Google news is free for example. We have tried this in Germany and in Spain. It didn’t work. Why do it on EU level again just to put every site owner at legal risk?

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teamhappy8y ago· 1 in thread

The proposal says "The rights referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply in respect of uses of insubstantial parts of a press publication". The title is the least substantial part I can think of.

baxtrOP8y ago

This is your personal interpretation and you might be right. But in reality, if it's not defined concretely enough (like in this case), courts will decide. Until then, everybody should rather refrain from linking, quoting and commenting.

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