I think the issue of it being a charity is irrelevant and shouldn't be an issue at all. I don't want to see charities "allowed" to link to others and everyone else not allowed.
This is just links. How does the World Wide Web work without linking? It doesn't.
What is the current legal status of linking? In the past it's been considered fair use.
The Belgian Google case mentioned elsewhere here was one where they were upset over the caching, text excerpts and thumbnail photos and not the raw links. At least there, there is a question to evaluate if it is fair use or not.
If referencing articles through hyperlinks is determined to be a copyright violation, then it is also a copyright violation to cite sources in the footnotes of an academic paper.
I'm wondering if it were okay for Newspaper Licensing Ireland to write "cf. yesterday's paper, first article on page 8" without obtaining a license. If so, linking should be okay, too.
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I think the issue of it being a charity is irrelevant and shouldn't be an issue at all. I don't want to see charities "allowed" to link to others and everyone else not allowed.
This is just links. How does the World Wide Web work without linking? It doesn't.
What is the current legal status of linking? In the past it's been considered fair use.
The Belgian Google case mentioned elsewhere here was one where they were upset over the caching, text excerpts and thumbnail photos and not the raw links. At least there, there is a question to evaluate if it is fair use or not.
If referencing articles through hyperlinks is determined to be a copyright violation, then it is also a copyright violation to cite sources in the footnotes of an academic paper.
I'm wondering if it were okay for Newspaper Licensing Ireland to write "cf. yesterday's paper, first article on page 8" without obtaining a license. If so, linking should be okay, too.