Short Take: Hyperlinks cause infringement suit

The Shetland Times has filed a summons in Scotland's supreme civil court, preventing its competitor, the Shetland News, from using hyperlinks to jump from its Web site over to the Times' site. "My view is that by incorporating our copyright material into his news service he infringes on our copyright. The technical process by which this is achieved is irrelevant," the Times editor said, as reported by BNA Daily.