RE: [dvd-discuss] NYTimes.com Article: Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute

["Dean Sanchez" <DSanchez(at)fcci-group.com>]

If the copyrighted material was sent along with the ad and the link, I would agree.  However, as only a link was sent and not the material, I see no ethical reason for not including the ad.  Else we go down the road (which a number of sites are trying to do) of stating that linking to a copyrighted site without permission (as search engines also do) is a violation of copyright.

In addition, here is another thought for the group.  Let's follow the expansion of automatic copyright to an absurdity.  The process of my creating an email account should grant me automatic copyright to the written address.  If my email address is valuable (otherwise why collect it) and even if it isn't, the only person that should be able to engage in offering my email address in exchange for remuneration (access to copyrighted material) should be me.  Direct marketers should not be able to use my (copyrighted) email address without licensing the right from me.

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnold G. Reinhold [mailto:reinhold@world.std.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:52 AM
To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] NYTimes.com Article: Google Runs Into
Copyright Dispute


Noah is correct. I did click the "email this to a friend" link and 
didn't realize an ad would be included. But that raises an 
interesting ethical (and legal) question.  Like most on this list, i 
am strongly opposed to the enormous widening of copyright protections 
and the resulting abuse of power.  It seems to me that part of that 
fight should be to encourage responsible use of copyright. When a 
content creator, like the New York Times, makes its material 
available on the Internet for free and provides a mechanism for 
forwarding that material via e-mail at the price of including a small 
ad, then perhaps their behavior should be rewarded and we should 
respect their wishes that the ad be included  when the material is 
disseminated.

Arnold Reinhold



At 1:58 PM -0400 4/23/02, Noah silva wrote:
>Probably this is one of those "email this to a friend" type links on the
>web page that doesn't mention it will be emailing other things as well.  I
>never actually used those because... I didn't find it that cary to copy
>and paste a URL.
>
> -- noah silva
>
>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Steve Bryan wrote:
>
>> At the risk of appearing hypersensitive, why are we being sent an
>> advertisement in e-mail? If sending a link to an article requires that
>> it be accompanied by an even greater mass of advertising, please don't
>> bother sending the link. I don't mean to imply everyone must behave
>> according to my whims, I only intend to express my opinion which I
>> suspect might be held by many others.
>>
>> > On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 10:37  pm, reinhold@world.std.com wrote:
>> >
>> > This article from NYTimes.com
>> > has been sent to you by reinhold@world.std.com.
>> >
>> >
>> > /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\
>>
>