[LINK] Aggregator agrees deal to pay for UK online news links

[Michael Skeggs mike@bystander.net]

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On 18 May 2012 10:54, Jan wrote
>> It's an interesting assertion that links are
>> copyrighted material.
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Headlines I can kind of understand, but links seems a bit silly.
A bit like the recent Optus live view appeal ruling, it smacks of a
judge trying to interpret the law in such a way as to maintain the
status quo.
And then I thought about the Pirate Bay's move to using magnet links
instead of hosting torrent files.
As I understand it, these encode a hash of distinguishing information
about a torrent file (like an MD5 checksum i guess) that allows a
torrent client to 'find' the file out amongst trackers.
So links are containing more and more complex information. Perhaps at
some stage they should become subject to copyright, much as a database
collection has been ruled to be!

Regards,
Michael Skeggs