論歐盟法院判決中之超連結與公開傳輸權－以GS Media案判決為中心

Hyperlinks and Right of communication to the public: Centered on the decision of the GS Media Case of the Court of Justice of EU (CJEU)

吳建興

《科技法律透析》 29卷8期 (2017/08) Pp. 44-70

摘要

超連結是網際網路基本功能之一，藉由超連結可快速連結至存於網路上的數位化資料。超連結也與網路言論自由相關。其功能在指出言論出處，並以此內容為其言論佐證。本文欲藉由歐盟法院於2016年關於超連結判決GS Media案，探討在歐盟著作權指令下，從公開傳輸權角度，超連結之合法性使用標準。文中將先分析歐盟法院之超連結相關判決，次再提出本文對此合法性標準之評價，最後就未來可能產生問題及進一步需觀測研究問題為說明。

關鍵字

超連結 ； 公開傳輸權 ； 嵌入式連結 ； 歐盟著作權指令 ； 網際網路

並列摘要

Hyperlinks are one of the basic functions of Internet. Internet users can quickly find their digital data on Web by the hyperlink. However, hyperlinks are also related to the liberty of opinion on Internet, which give the source of their speech and provide, in some cases, the proof of their opinion. As a result, hyperlinks' legal status was recently challenged before the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in a case called GS Media. This case gives a perfect occasion to discuss the legal conditions of its use under the article 3 of EU Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC): the Right of communication to the public. Moreover, in this article, several cases of CJEU of the same issue will be analyzed. Last but not least, some remarks about the EU legal use of hyperlinks will be given and also some problems relating to EU standards still need to be resolved in the near future.

並列關鍵字

Hyperlinks ； Right of Communication to the Public ； Embedding Link ； EU Copyright Directive ； Internet

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Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, Official Journal L 167, 22/06/2001 P.0010-0019.