11-Word Extracts infringe Copyright in Europe

splodus writes: The European Court of Justice, which is Europe's highest court, has ruled that a service providing 11-word snippets of newspaper articles could be unlawful. Media monitoring company Infopaq International searches newspaper articles and provides clients with a keyword and the five words either side. This was challenged by the DDF, a group representing newspaper interests, as infringing their members' copyright. The court has referred the issue back to national courts to determine whether copyright laws in each country will be subject to the ruling. The full ruling is available at the European Court of Justice website.

Too many words!

[Important Remark]

'The summary had better be: "The European Court of Justice, which is Europes highest court"

It could make sense

[Yvanhoe]

Actually, most news articles could really be summed up in 11 words. Many articles bear little more information than their title does. In that sense, it is not really an "extract" anymore to take the beef out of the article.