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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 no
by icc97 8y ago
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 8y agoIANAL, but usually if something is explicitly allowed by law you can rely on that even if other parts of the law forbid it.
- drtillberg 8y agoThe rule of lenity works that was for US criminal laws. For US civil law, it is not quite so.
- Kliment 8y agoThis is a directive not a regulation - each EU member state gets to decide that.