The CJEU’s ruling on web linking: what will it mean for copyright owners?

The  ruling in VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz was not unexpected in terms of outcome. But it was interesting to see that the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) reasoning diverged under certain aspects from the one proposed by Advocate General (AG) Maciej Szpunar in his opinion delivered in October last year, namely: