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Italian court says Yahoo! Does not need to remove links to infringing site

19 July 2011 | Mark Weston

An Italian court has denied a claim made by a distributor of an Iranian film called “About Elly” that Yahoo! should remove search results that provide links to infringing copies of the film. The judge...

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Google ordered by Belgian court to remove snippets and links in Google News for infringing newspapers’ copyright

14 May 2011 | Mark Weston

Google has been ordered to remove snippets of stories taken from newspapers’ websites or links to stories on those websites from its Google News service. Copiepresse, which represents the newspapers,...

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Argentina overturns previous ruling that had made search engines liable for links to content relating to superstars

26 August 2010 | Mark Weston

An Argentinian appeal court has overturned a controversial 2008 ruling in which search engines had been made liable for the content of sites to which those search engines provided links in the results...

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Hyperlinked web pages relevant to interpreting whether meaning is defamatory – Islam Expo v The Spectator, High Court

20 August 2010 | Paul Gershlick

This case surrounded an allegation of defamation made by Islam Expo against The Spectator and a journalist who wrote an online article for the magazine. The article contained links to other web pages and...

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British record industry tells Google to stop having links to unauthorised music

2 July 2010 | Mark Weston

The BPI – the body representing the UK record industry – has written a letter to Google requiring them to remove links to web sites that contain unauthorised music. Although Google initially has a...

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Google gets thumbs up from German court to use small picture previews

5 May 2010 | Mark Weston

The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled that Google could use and display a thumbnail preview of a picture taken from an artist’s web site, because she had not sent a signal to say that she objected...

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Arguments of being innocent host in copyright infringement case sent to bin – Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin, High Court

8 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The operators of the Newzbin web site – which provided helpful tools to enable people to share unauthorised content such as films – infringed the copyright owners’ content in providing that service...

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