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Description: Commentary on linking to pages against their author's permission. [Brad Templeton]
Many people write to ask me about whether it can be a copyright violation to link to a web page against the explicit wishes of the owner of that web page. This is not a suitable subject for the copyright myths article because this is not at all a decided subject. Like many areas of net law, this question is very much in the air. On Aug 17, 2000, a federal judge in New York (in a decision full of bizarre items) ruled that links were both expressive and functional, and could be subject to regulation. (The foundation I was chairman of was funding the defense of those who did, among other things, the linking, but at this stage we lost, and the appeal was also lost. The case is, however, not over.)
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| Page title: | Linking Rights |
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| IP-address: | 208.78.244.7 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Server: NS02.EFF.ORG Name Server: NS1.NETFUNNY.COM Name Server: NS2.NETFUNNY.COM |
| WHOIS | Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited |
| Date | Creation Date: 16-mar-1998 Expiration Date: 15-mar-2014 |