Internet users who look at copyrighted material online aren’t breaking copyright by doing so, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on Thursday reports Gigaom.

Before you splutter “Well duh” at your screen, note that this judgement finally ends a very long-running and somewhat stupid legal debate over rights relating to online newspaper clippings. This is a useful ruling that will apply across the EU, much to the chagrin of certain publishers.

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All this relates to the British Meltwater case. Meltwater is a Norway-founded media monitoring service that sent out daily digests including the headlines and “ledes” – the first bit of the article — of the newspaper stories, together with links to the full online articles. It did not pay for these snippets. The company found itself sued in both the U.S. and the U.K., with the suits covering the same basic activity but diverging significantly in what happened next.

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