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Re: Cats and pigeons...
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Date: 
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 04:59:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.general, Eric Joslin writes:
- Pointers to websites that have images of sets before their release
(ie, TheForce.net, TheOuterRim.com, etc)?

I personally don't see any problem with this, depending on how the
pointers are worded.  Simply reporting upon the existence of something
somewhere else, no matter how illegal (including posting URLs of
information contained on other publicly accessible servers, for purposes
of discussion) can hardly be construed as infringing on anyone's rights.
Then again, I am not a lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice.  I'm
sure it's an extremely gray area.
[...]

Well, wouldn't ya know it -- it gets greyer and greyer.  Just found a link
to this...

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/cyberlaw/10law.html

...from a thread on Slashdot:

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/10/1043252&mode=thread&threshold=-1

Okee, time for me bed.
--Todd



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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) can the court distinguish between a link which is clearly for the purpose of encouraging people to use a web site which contains copyright infringing material, which the case this court decision is dealing (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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