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To link or not to link? A fundamental premise of the Web is challenged

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To link or not to link? A fundamental premise of the Web is challenged

ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 10 — Nicolai Lassen considers linking such a fundamental element of the World Wide Web that he sees nothing wrong with creating a service around linking to news articles at more than 3,000 other sites. Danish publishers, however, equate such linking with stealing — and have gone to court to stop it. The case, scheduled for hearings in Copenhagen later this month, is among the latest to challenge the Web’s basic premise of encouraging the free flow of information through linking.

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