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icc97 on July 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's E...

I do wonder how the law works - does it work by the weight of the arguments in the text or by the simplest reading of it. So if the text literally says 'does not apply to hyperlinks' then any does infringement of other laws by hyperlinks win because it's there in black and white or does the weight of all the other arguments win?

ahakki on July 3, 2018 | [–]

IANAL, but usually if something is explicitly allowed by law you can rely on that even if other parts of the law forbid it.

unyttigfjelltol on July 4, 2018 | | [–]

The rule of lenity works that was for US criminal laws. For US civil law, it is not quite so.

Kliment on July 4, 2018 | [–]

This is a directive not a regulation - each EU member state gets to decide that.

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