European Court of Justice legal counsel: hyperlinks do not constitute infringement of copyright-network piracy, torts-IT information

European Court of Justice General Counsel believes that without the author's authorization is linked to a photo on the Web site does not constitute a copyright infringement. This recommendation is not binding, but the European Court often listened to these views.

Europe stipulates that each communication of copyright works to obtain the permission of the copyright holder, General Counsel if the hyperlink also follows the rules will hurt the Internet, mainly as a hyperlink found.

In the Netherlands case, GeenStijl website provides a Netherlands links to celebrity photo, photo in an Australia displayed on this website, Playboy Magazine, but the Web site does not consent in Playboy.

欧洲最高法院法律顾问：超链接不构成侵犯版权 - 网络,盗版,侵权 - IT资讯

欧洲最高法院总法律顾问认为，未经作者授权链接到网站上的一张照片不构成版权侵犯。这一建议不具有约束性，但欧盟法院通常会听取这些意见。

欧洲规定版权作品的每一个交流行为都要获得版权所有者的准许，总法律顾问认为如果超链接也遵循这一规定将会伤害互联网，超链接主要充当了促进发现的作用。

在荷兰的一起案件中，GeenStijl网站提供了一个荷兰名人照片的链接，照片在一个澳大利亚网站上展示，是花花公子杂志拍摄的，但该网站未获得花花公子的同意。