Should linking be illegal? [Judge wants to ban 'fair use' linking]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/01/richard-posner-copyright-linking-news ^ | 1 July 09 | Dan Kennedy

[Mr_Moonlight]

Guess public libraries ought to be banned too, after all isn't that 'content sharing' also? The book is paid for only once and 'shared' with hundreds or thousands of readers ... and the publisher gets stiffed out of rightful copyright compensation ...

/slight sarc off

[piytar]

Wow, too tired to get into why you are completely wrong, but you are. There is a viable middle ground, and in fact most businesses and artists live in it quite well right now...

[AAABEST]

Next he’ll propose a law that forbids giving someone directions to a news stand.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Moderate Muslim = OUT OF BULLETS...

[piytar]

Um, the freelancer did, but a simple limited assignment of rights would cover the issue.

[Netizen]

Yep and don’t leave a newspaper laying on a table in a restaurant either. /sarc

[Mr_Moonlight]

Yep and don’t leave a newspaper laying on a table in a restaurant either. /sarc

Or footnote in a research essay (footnotes are a form of 'linking' too). /more sarc

[Steve Van Doorn]

How is Judge Richard Posner a conservative when he push’s the leftist crap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuNio9nbo8

[Clintonfatigued]

Could this really happen?

[cynwoody]

In the digital age you can either have free access to all data or a police state...these are the only two choices.

Exactly!

Posner's a sad case. He could have been a contender.

[cynwoody]

This Judge's judgment seems faulty, and his modest proposal is gonna sink like a lead ballon

Really! A mind is a terrible thing to witness spiraling down the porcelain chute. Poor Posner.

[Star Traveler]

and he wants to kill Free Republic, in the process of killing the Internet... hoo-boy!

[TigersEye]

Since when is it a judge’s job to propose anything?

Since the 1st of Never.

[GeronL]

The internet would not exist without linking

[GeronL]

CNS News

[DakotaRed]

Stupid reasoning. Most of us bloggers use only what allowed under fair use laws and linking back to the newspaper article sends readers to the paper, not away from it.

The print media is dead, this will help kill the online media some have set up.

[denydenydeny]

Posner supports partial-birth abortion and has recently published a book entitled The Failure of Capitalism. But the Left insists on calling him a "conservative."

[ApplegateRanch]

bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent

I guess no students can write any class papers based on current events.

Two MSM news sites, each with a reporter at a news conference: which is the copyright owner, and which is the "paraphraser" for publishing the same facts/quotes and posting them on their own sites in their respective articles?

Or are "journalists" to be excepted, and only "bloggers" and other peasants to be barred from "paraphrasing"?

[The Duke]

Thanks...I’ll give it a very good look. :)