Publisher Sues AdBlock Plus For Copyright Infringement

guest · Apr 11, 2019

Now, a year later, Axel Springer has returned for another bite of the cherry
Publisher Sues AdBlock Plus For Copyright Infringement
April 11, 2019
https://torrentfreak.com/publisher-sues-adblock-plus-for-copyright-infringement-190411/

This time the publisher claims that AdBlock Plus infringes copyright. The company’s complaint, reported on by Heise.de, appears to push the boundaries of what is generally accepted as infringement.

“Advertising blockers change the programming code of websites and thus directly access the legally protected offer of publishers,” says Claas-Hendrik Soehring, head of media law at Axel Springer.

“The argument that we intervene in the ‘programming code of websites’, I would like to call almost absurd,” Eyeo’s spokesperson said in a statement.
“It does not take much technical understanding to understand that a browser-side plug-in does not make it possible to modify anything on Springer’s servers.”
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