After a five-year case, the European court of justice has ruled that copies of web pages made in the course of browsing the internet do not infringe copyright law […]
The court ruled that browsing and viewing articles online doesn’t require authorisation from the copyright holder, settling a row between the PRCA, the industry body for Britain’s PR industry, and the Newspaper Licensing Authority (NLA), which had raged for five years. The fight began in a copyright tribunal between media monitoring firm Meltwater and the NLA.
The ECJ ruled that European law « must be interpreted as meaning that the on-screen copies and the cached copies made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website satisfy the conditions… and that they may therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders. » […]
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/internet-users-cannot-be-sued-for-browsing-the-web-ecj-rules