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'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court (torrentfreak.com)
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German publisher Axel Springer, owner of brands including Bild and Die Welt, has been given another opportunity to have ad blocking outlawed on copyright grounds. After a series of defeats in its years-long legal action against the makers of Adblock Plus, the publisher appealed to the Federal Court of Justice. Germany's top court has now overturned a 2023 ruling by the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, referring the case back for reconsideration of the core issues.

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[–] ludodo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Protecting web pages under the software/writing protection law is wrong. The software is the web-browser, the page is a medium, like paper is. There is rights protection for the text, there are patents for the ideas, but there is nothing protecting the paper, nor there is for the web page.