Unknowingly Linking to Infringing Content Is Still Infringement, Court Rules

Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC) A court in Germany has held the operator of a commercial website liable after it unknowingly linked to infringing content hosted elsewhere. The Hamburg Regional Court found that the link to a Creative Commons image, posted to another site without the correct attribution, amounted to a copyright infringement. In 2011, Dutch [...]