Illegal linking?
A lot of commotion in Danish blogcircles because a blogger mentioned an album produced by this guy and linked to the site Creative Commons which alledgedly held a copy of the named album of that guy (an accusation which according to named blogger isn't true as the named site did not itself hold a copy). Suddenly the blogger is addressed by a lawyer representing the Danish Anti-Piracy Group (Antipiratgruppen) accusing him of committing a criminal act. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is the mere act of linking to someone who links to something which may - or may not be violating the copyright of others (it may also be a work of art?) - in itself violating copyright (opretshavloven)? Policing the internet for this kind of "crime" might - and should - turn out to be hard work.
Article in Politiken and one coming up in Information.

The Danish copyright law (Oprethavsloven) has in fact in at least one case been used to ban deep linking and it forbids direct copying of digital material (unless the owner of the material explicitly allows you to do it). It seems that when it comes to copyright issues on the internet, Danish laws and Danish policy are perhaps not quite in tune with the information age, however much I do believe that you should credit your sources and not prey on the content other people have produced. But I'm talking about exact and unmediated copies of original material with no credits. This is not the case here, as far as I understand.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 01:11