I recommend following @Tupp_Ed (Simon McGarr) on twitter as he's very involved in copyright issues in Ireland. He previously came to fame when the Irish Minister of State for Research and Innovation refused to participate in a debate on the Irish equivalent to SOPA unless Simon stepped down from the panel.
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A reply has been sent to Women's Aid from Newspaper Licensing Ltd: http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2012/05/24/reply-received-fro...
I recommend following @Tupp_Ed (Simon McGarr) on twitter as he's very involved in copyright issues in Ireland. He previously came to fame when the Irish Minister of State for Research and Innovation refused to participate in a debate on the Irish equivalent to SOPA unless Simon stepped down from the panel.
The reply is brilliant, and is an example of a lawyer calling them on their nonsense:
"> “a licence is required to link directly to an online article even without uploading any of the content directly onto your own website”.
We would be grateful if you would specify the statutory basis of this claim by return of post."
Basically "I don't think that's the law, please tell us the law. Oh you can't find it?"