Thursday
Dec172009
No Legal basis for hyperlink tax

Meltwater Group, a privately held Norwegian global company committed to disrupting the status quo through novel technologies and a powerful, global sales and distribution infrastructure, looking to the Copyright Tribunal to clarify the issues of hyperlinks being a public amenity. This move makes it clear that what the newspapers are proposing is nothing less than a hyperlink tax!
http://meltwater.com/en/meltwater-takes-nla-uk-copyright-tribunal-over-proposed-hyperlink-tax