kmhess writes “All over the blogosphere, the word is out about the Tulsa World newspaper’s attempt to silence one of its critics, the blog BatesLine. Apparently, documenting endemic corruption in local Tulsa politics made someone mad, and they have been accused of copyright infringement for copying and LINKING to Tulsa World articles that are available for free! You can read about it here.
If you are curious about fair use, Stanford Law has a good resource for copyright law. Last time I checked, its considered fair use to copy text so you can criticize it. However, I don’t think linking is anywhere in copyright law – I wonder how much the World paid for that legal opinion?
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Correction
Stanford’s Library, not Stanford Law.