UK injunction to prevent WWW links

In the UK, there is a case, just started, where one WWW based newspaper has obtained an injunction to prevent a competitor from providing links between the two.

For background, see

   http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/headline/

and look for the item entitled interdict

It seems to me that putting WWW links can never be copyright infringement, but that is precisely what one of the parties is claiming. Has there been any similar case anywhere else in the world?

Charles Oppenheim
<charles[_at_]dmu.ac.uk> Received on Mon Oct 28 1996 - 09:39:33 GMT