Can a Web Link Break Copyright Laws?

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/cyber/cyberlaw/25law.html


September 25, 1998
 By CARL S. KAPLAN 

         Can a Web Link Break Copyright Laws?

             Suppose a Web site links to a site that links to another
site containing illegally reproduced photographs. Can the first site be
sued for illegal linking? 

         That's just one of the many head-scratchers that were raised by
an unprecedented copyright infringement lawsuit filed and then withdrawn
by Gary Bernstein, a veteran Hollywood glamour photographer. The suit
charged J.C. Penney Inc. and other parties with copyright infringement. 

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James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
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