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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
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  • Cc: "CommStudios" <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Reno_Perl_Group" <renotahoe-pm AT pm.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Dallas Morning News Admits SLAPP Time vs. Barking Dogs . . . .
  • Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:59:31 -0700

Hi: Nice work, Nader:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z5DD60BD

A letter from the non-profit public advocacy group was sent today to
Dallas-based Belo, which recently demanded that BarkingDogs.org, a local news
Web site, stop deep linking to stories within The Dallas Morning News site,
DallasNews.com. Instead, BarkingDogs should only link to the DallasNews home
page, Belo's lawyers said in a cease-and-desist letter sent last month to
self-proclaimed Net activist Avi S. Adelman, who publishes BarkingDogs.

In a letter to Belo attorney J. Kevin Gray, Public Citizen attorney Paul Alan
Levy disputed Belo's contention that deep linking without permission violates
the newspaper's copyrights. Levy pointed to several court decisions which
rejected the argument that deep links are copyright infringements.

"[Belo's] contention that the provision of hyperlinks to locations within
Belo's publicly available Web site violates the copyright laws unless
permission is given for such links threatens the viability of the World Wide
Web itself," Levy wrote. "Indeed, review of various Web sites operated by the
Belo Corp. reveals that deep linking is a practice in which your own client
is engaged."

As IWantMedia.com reported last week, Belo's Providence (R.I.) Journal
publishes a technology blog that deep links to other Web sites.
(http://www.projo.com/technology/netrunner/)



  • [Community_studios] Dallas Morning News Admits SLAPP Time vs. Barking Dogs . . . ., tom poe, 05/13/2002

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