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Deep-linking Decision: A Pyrrhic Victory
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danish folly
7/10/2002 7:00:59 AM
Posted By: Per Helge Berrefjord

A pitty you (probably) cant read norwegian. If you, or somebody you know can, here is my item on the danish case: http://frittogvilt.no/magasin/nettstoff.html
I am a long time editor/journalist in this field. Latest book about journalists and the internet 2000: "Den femte statsmakt".
I fully agree with your point (as you can se if you read norwegian). The victory is pyrrhic, and furthermore: The future of the internet, or the net "as is" is hardly at stake.
However there is another really serious problem with the danish dailies so called victory. Not only are they shooting themselves in the foot on the internet as such. They have targeted and hit in a very destructive way their own formost paragraph in their objects clause (see page 16 in the verdict).
This paragraph deals with their community commitment, the freedom of the press, access to information for all etc. The restrictive practice by the court that the dailies have inspired, and what the court thus has concluded from the "databasedirektiv", i.e. the new EU legislation on electronic databases of 1996 (direktiv 96/9), their editors (of any media) soon will experience with regret.
Best regards
Per H:-)B
Per Helge Berrefjord
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