[Servant of the 9]

Damned if I can understand how linking can be illegal. It is no different than citing an article in a footnote. You still have to go to their website for the content.

But then the Law has always been An Ass.

SO9

[Stoat]

Perhaps this may interest you ?

[freebilly]

Linking to a website is now illegal? If so, the Internet just died....

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Damned if I can understand how linking can be illegal.

It isn't. If he puts the URL to the paper's homepage on his site, there isn't thing one the paper can do about it. If he has an embedded link to the same URL on his website, I still don't think there is anything they can do. The letter calls it "inappropriate linking". What the hell is that? If has a link to a specific article or content or...he has a logo for the paper that is itself an embedded link...then...maybe.

Just because some shyster lawyer says it is a violation of the law doesn't mean it is. As I see it, copyright laws cover reproduction of protected content on another website not associated with the copyright holder....not linking to URLs.