[aaroncrane]

Charlie, while both you and Cutbot are in Scotland, this is actually a UK issue. First, copyright is an issue reserved to Westminster. Second, the High Court (and Court of Appeal) ruled that normal web browsing is a potentially infringing activity. In the case of newspaper content, the NLA for the rights-holders now require commercial users to obtain a licence — initially for those receiving briefings from monitoring firms, but the ruling covers all commercial use, which includes simply visiting a relevant web page while at even a charitable place of work.

Also, please note that this isn’t about the location of colo servers: the law as interpreted by the courts concerns viewing a web page while in the UK.

The court rulings in question are:

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/3099.html http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2011/890.html

Disclosure: I’m one of the founders of Cutbot.