VITAMEDIAS
No Links Please, We're European: To many Internet users, these "deep links" are the very stuff of the Internet; the idea that they might be controversial will come as a surprise. But to those knowledgeable of EU intellectual-property law, the Danish court ruling was no shocker. The Copenhagen jurist based his decision on the EU's directive on the legal protection of databases, which was approved in 1996 and has since been implemented in the legislation of all member countries.