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Håkon Wium Lie of WWW fame has written on his blog about being sued for publishing public domain court decisions in Norway. Various volunteers have been publishing this material at rettspraksis.no, which is now down because of the copyright lawsuit against them even though both Norwegian laws and court decisions are exempted from copyright in Norway.
The basis for the lawsuit has been the copyright harmonization effort, Directive 96/9/EC from 1996, which asserts a 15-year copyright on databases and their contents. Not worried that Norway is outside the EU, the judge apparently considered the matter for less than 24 hours and without hearing counter arguments before deciding against rettspraksis.no, taking the site's contents offline, even material older than 15 years, and then slapping the volunteers with a large legal bill. An appeal is underway.
Via Boing Boing : Norwegian court orders volunteers to take down public domain court verdicts and pay copyright troll's legal bills.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @04:46PM (7 children)
HA HA HA
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:28PM (6 children)
jorgmanskir bites lothgar rothbrook truth over private danish judicial proceedings
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:44PM (2 children)
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
See the løveli lakes
The wøndërful telephøne system
And mäni interesting furry animals
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @08:31PM (1 child)
Perhaps if we had the Headline rewritten at that last moment, at great expense, by a bunch of Llamas?
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:38PM
The directors of the firm hired to continue the headline after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:58PM (2 children)
Would be less of a problem without unreadable mess of title capitlization "news" sites seem to be so fond of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @06:55PM (1 child)
Corrected: Court bites Håkon Wium Lie over public domain Norwegian court decisions
It's still not great English but at least it's readable.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday June 12 2018, @11:07PM
Corrected Corrected: Lovdata Lie to Court over Håkon Wium public domain