Re: Article - Internet Linking: The First Amendment Is Alive And Well.

Neil Shapiro's insistence that the defendants' arguments in Reimerdes represent "extremist First Amendment" positions pretty much undermines any argument that he's an "expert on the First Amendment."

One of the signs that his analysis is fundamentally irrational is his assertion that the Reimerdes decision is "morally" as well as legally correct.

This guy is an apologist for the copyright totalism represented by the DMCA.

--Mike

>Article - Internet Linking: The First Amendment Is Alive And Well.
>http://www.lawmemo.com/ip/articles/linking.htm
>
>Neil Shapiro, of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, is a nationally
>recognized expert on the First Amendment. He discusses two recent court
>opinions in which web site owners were enjoined against linking to other
>sites when such linking encouraged and assisted others to infringe the
>rights of copyright owners.
>
>Ross Runkel

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