Manning on Hyperlinks and Copyright Law

Colin Manning, Cork Institute of Technology, has published Hyperlinks & Copyright Law. Here is the abstract.

Reconciling the desire for wide distribution with the desire for control has proven challenging for the law. Deep linking is a good illustration of how applying print and broadcast era concepts to the challenges of the digital era can result in uncertainty and unintended consequences. In the Svennson decision, the court not only failed to acknowledge the distinction between linking and embedding, but it explicitly permitted embedding of content from other sites. This could have implications for how content is distributed, and may ultimately harm user privacy.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.