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

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Absolutely.  However, such respect works both ways ... a
proper respect for the reader would require full disclosure.
In other words ... they shoulda told you what would happen
when you clicked on the button.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnold G. Reinhold [mailto:reinhold@world.std.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:52 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 -----------------------\
> >>
> >
>