11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe 132
splodus writes "The European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, has ruled that a service providing 11-word snippets of newspaper articles could be unlawful. Media monitoring company Infopaq International searches newspaper articles and provides clients with a keyword and the five words either side. This practice was challenged by the DDF, a group representing newspaper interests, as infringing their members' copyright. The court has referred the issue back to national courts to determine whether copyright laws in each country will be subject to the ruling. The full ruling is available at the European Court of Justice Web site."
I wonder how far you could take this (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps eventually quoting the law that makes quoting things illegal will be illegal. Why not, wells fargo is suing wells fargo and AT&T charging a discount fee for discounts it would make perfect sense.
11-words extract of the article (Score:5, Funny)
Five Words (Score:2, Funny)
De minimis non curat lex.
10-word extract coming up (Score:3, Funny)
From TFA:
A Danish pressclipping company could be violating copyright by printing
Expecting to be sued for copyright violation in 3...2...1...
That's actually a good thing (Score:3, Funny)
Next, merely refering to the thing will get you sued, until you cant even read the thing without promising you will forget what you read. And sooner or later we will just forget about people copyrighting their work alltogether, and just like Darth Sidious said "and then.. we shall have peace".