Posting Links To Images Published Without Permission Considered Illegal In EU

Playboy has won a legal fight in the European Union when top court said posting links to images published without permission as profit is being seeked from those.

Playboy’s Dutch publisher wanted the court to remove a web link to photos of a TV celebrity Britt Dekker as it was published illegally.

The website that lost the case to Playboy is GeenStijl. It is, as claimed, most visited news website in the Netherlands.

Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union said, “It is undisputed that GS Media provided the hyperlinks to the files containing the photos for profit and that Sanoma had not authorised the publication of those photos on the interne.”

According to GS Media, the ruling is now a big blow to press freedom and thereafter would be difficult to report on newsworthy new questions, internal struggles, leaked information and unsecure networks in large companies.

Lately the issue of hyperlinking to articles and photos have become divisive and it is argued by content workers to ease the new order.

The European Commission would be setting up proposal by next week on publishing copyrighted content.