What Håkon Wium Lie thinks about Europe
Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in 1994 and was chief technology officer of Opera Software from 1999 to 2016.
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2 dated positions, 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Håkon Wium Lie has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn the courts, we argued that freedom of speech entitles us to publish documents that are core to a democratic society. And freedom of speech must trump the Database Directive.
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Our readingNorwegian courts erred in not treating Lovdata as a public sector body under the EU PSI Directive.
Their wordsNorway is under the obligation to implement the PSI directive. As such, I think the courts made a mistake when they didn't consider Lovdata to be a «public sector body».