CanadaCrookes v. Newton
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Decided 19 October 2011 by the Supreme Court of Canada.
A linking and framing rule binding public and private bodies.
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The Supreme Court of Canada held that a hyperlink to defamatory third-party content does not by itself constitute 'publication' of that content under Canadian defamation law; publication requires that the linked material be repeated or adopted in the linking text. This ruling broadly protects hyperlinkers (including news aggregators and search engines) from defamation liability for linking to third-party news content. The decision does not address copyright aspects of linking or framing.
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Linking framing
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