The Court of Justice of the EU has some of the most competent IT lawyers of the world. I am sure they already compiled a memo about the definition of "hyperlink". I'd love to see it.
What constitutes an hyperlink?
* A working `<a href="url">` HTML element? So overlay links inside YouTube videos are OK? What about <span> elements with `onclick="window.location="`?
* Anything that can point to a URL and is actionable?
* A simple URL? Would an URL in the text be considered an hyperlink? That could easily be extended to consider URLs in footnotes in printed book hyperlinks as well. (And what about EPUBs?)
* A non-dereferenciable URL? What happens if I write as normal text the SHA1 of a file I want you to have a look at? Any DHT-enabled application/protocol would be able to fetch it.
Are we basically going back to DeCSS and forbidden numbers?
PS: Firefox US English spell checker does not know about the newfangled word "hyperlinks".
What constitutes an hyperlink?
* A working `<a href="url">` HTML element? So overlay links inside YouTube videos are OK? What about <span> elements with `onclick="window.location="`?
* Anything that can point to a URL and is actionable?
* A simple URL? Would an URL in the text be considered an hyperlink? That could easily be extended to consider URLs in footnotes in printed book hyperlinks as well. (And what about EPUBs?)
* A non-dereferenciable URL? What happens if I write as normal text the SHA1 of a file I want you to have a look at? Any DHT-enabled application/protocol would be able to fetch it.
Are we basically going back to DeCSS and forbidden numbers?
PS: Firefox US English spell checker does not know about the newfangled word "hyperlinks".