- From: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:34:46 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <AANLkTimOTHSW7h86MpM7g49eZhj6Qn5HHOM+Hzpw-_5-@mail.gmail.com>
I saw this one too, and almost relayed to www-tag, but I thought it would be better to find out exactly what this person was being charged with and on what evidence. When I tried to drill down on this, the trail seemed a bit thin. Here is the relevant techdirt article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110303/16584013356/ice-arrests-operator-seized-domain-charges-him-with-criminal-copyright-infringement.shtml This leads to these two ICE press releases: http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1102/110202newyork.htm http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1103/110303newyork.htm It certainly sounds as if ICE has convinced a judge at arraignment (I'm assuming that there was an arraignment) that linking can constitute infringement. But it's as likely that both the ICE and the judge are confused about how the technology works. I'd like to hear from someone competent to do legal analysis before reacting too strongly to this case. The action seems to be on EFF's radar: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/what-congress-can-learn-recent-ice-seizures "Significantly, the websites targeted in the most recent ICE action appear to have merely linked to infringing content." Best Jonathan On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote: > It seems Issue-25 has been escalated. > Tim > >
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