Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Scholars Say

Svensson said that by providing links to his article, Retriever was communicating his work or making it available to the public without permission and for this he should be compensated.

Merely linking to a copyright work and displaying the resulting content within a frame did not constitute infringement, the company argued.

The opinion of the ECS, which is the work of 17 law professors and intellectual experts, says that hyperlinking should not be regarded as communicating a work to the public as outlined in the Directive.