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> That being said, it doesn't follow that it would make it illegal for any technology or any consumer to alter a website page appearance. I think the page owne
by josefx 5y ago
> That being said, it doesn't follow that it would make it illegal for any technology or any consumer to alter a website page appearance.
I think the page owners tried to argue that the page presented to the viewer was a single creative work / piece of art and that the ad blockers where defacing/misrepresenting that piece of art . As I understand the court basically decided that the final composition of the page lacked an overreaching creative process required to qualify.
> The HTML on a page should be automatically copyrighted to the author already.
<html> . Take that internet I own you now.
- wvenable 5y agoIt seems the language is backwards; it's not that the HTML document is not copyrightable but rather the resulting web page constructed by your browser from that HTML which is not copyrightable.