Barcelona Court rules P2P links page legal in Spain

Barcelona Court rules P2P links page legal in Spain
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By h.b. - Mar 14, 2010 - 6:43 PM
The court considered that elrincondejesus.com did not break any intellectual property law

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Consumers’ federation FACUA said on Sunday that they hoped the Government would change their policy and intentions to close down certain web pages. The call came after the court in Barcelona ruled, in the first civil case on the matter in Spain, that pages which host P2P links do not break the law.

The SGAE performing rights and copyright organisation in Spain had tried in court to close the page www.elrincondejesus.com considering the page offered links to download items via P2P programs. But the court considered that the page did not itself distribute any content which was subject to intellectual property.

The Spanish Association of Internet Users has also welcomed the sentence from Barcelona. President Victor Domingo said ‘It seems that the internet users are able to understand the future, and that the judges are clearly in agreement’.

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