European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement

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@SemTeK

Again, the EU now has conflicting precedents and, yes, needs to settle this in future cases to bring clarity. I don’t think, however, that suddenly the internet is going to crumble into little pieces (things like the link-taxation and breaking net neutrality are way more dangerous on that front)

As far as I know the EU Court of Justice uses civil law principles. So every ruling is decided on it’s individual terms and not based on existing case law. Precedents have weight but are not binding in civil law.