<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The EU is not considering link blocking.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/16/eu_wont_make_hyperlinks_illegal_copyright/" class="">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/16/eu_wont_make_hyperlinks_illegal_copyright/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/05/ec_copyright_framework_leak/" class="">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/05/ec_copyright_framework_leak/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any effects of restrictions seem to be limited to commercial sites aggregating copyrighted material - but then copyrighted material by definition has restrictions of use, subject to whatever licences may be granted.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Open Access - material that explicitly grants a licence to reuse (and link) content - is not going to be, and can’t be, affected.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The most likely outcome of this bill is make text and data mining of copyrighted material easier for research purposes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Nov 2015, at 23:12, Heather Morrison <<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" class="">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Open Access depends on linking - and is one of the best exemplars of why links should not be blocked. Please sign.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://savethelink.org/yourvoice?src=158734" class="">https://savethelink.org/yourvoice?src=158734</a><br class=""><br class="">best,<br class=""><br class="">Heather Morrison<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">GOAL mailing list<br class="">GOAL@eprints.org<br class="">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>