Within the scope of services provided by the operator, insofar as publicised contents incorporate links to the author’s Internet pages or to those of third parties, the following shall apply: in its judgement of 12 May 1998, the district court (Landgericht) of Hamburg concluded that whosoever publicises a link shall be potentially co-liable for the content of the linked Internet pages. In accordance with the district court, this can only be avoided where the relevant party expressly distances themselves from the said content. The operator expressly emphasises that it has no influence whatsoever on the design and content of the Internet pages relating to listed links. As such, the operator distances itself from all the contents of Internet pages related to the links and does not adopt their content as its own.