深层链接行为直接侵权的认定 以用户标准为原则,以技术标准为例外

How to Determine Direct Infringement with Deep-level Link:Following the user standards as guiding principle and taking technical standards as exception

并非所有的链接服务均属于网络服务提供行为,均受到《信息网络传播权保护条例》简称《条例》第二十三条规定的避风港保护。认定具体的链接服务是属于直接的信息网络传播行为,还是属于网络服务提供行为,不应以被传播的内容是否存在于该网站的服务器上为标准。如果用户可以直接在该网站的网页上直接获得被链接网站的内容,原则上即应认定其实施了直接的信息网络传播行为,除非该网站可以证明其仅被动地提供网络技术服务,且未进行任何人工干预,同时提供给网络用户的展示具体内容的网页表现形式是由被链接网站所决定的。

Not all link services are internet service provision susceptible to the safe harbour protection under Rule 23 of the Regulations for the Protection of Right of Communication Through Information Network （the Regulations）. Whether a specific link service is an act to directly communicate information on the internet or one of internet service provision should not be determined on account of whether the content communicated resides in the server of the website. If content in the linked website is directly available to a user directly on the home-page of the website, it should then be determined, in principle, that one has directly performed the act of internet service provision unless said website can prove that it had pas- sively provided the internet technology service, and had done no manual intervention, and meanwhile, the form of the webpage which it has made accessible to internet users to present specific content is determined by the linked website.