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This is the best summary I could come up with:
eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, has scored another victory in its long-running legal battle with German publisher Axel Springer.
The appeal, tossed by the Hamburg court last month, was filed by the German media conglomerate in response to the ruling from January 2022, also in favor of Eeyo.
That ruling was handed down to Axel Springer in the 2021 lawsuit, in which the publisher claimed for the first time that the HTML programming language should be protected under the German copyright law.
Before bringing up copyright claims against eyeo, Axel Springer tried a different path, accusing the Cologne-based software developer of unfair competition.
The publisher wanted not only to challenge Adblock Plus’s (admittedly questionable) practice of whitelisting certain advertisers, but also the concept of ad blocking as a whole.
This would spell doom for the idea of the open Internet as a space where people can freely develop and use new extensions and browser features to enhance their online experience.
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