Playboy Can Block Links to Celebrity Pictures, EU Court Says

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Playboy's Dutch publisher can stop a news and entertainment website from posting links to its images without permission, a top European Union court said in a ruling that could reverberate across the internet (GS Media BV v. Sonoma Media Netherlands BV, E.C.J., C-160/15, 9/8/16). The European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Luxembourg said GeenStijl, owned by GS Media, broke copyright laws when it published links to pictures of TV personality Britt Dekker without the permission of Sanoma Oyj's Dutch unit, which runs Playboy in the Netherlands.