[topicmaps] Interesting Legal Decision: Right To Link Upheld

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>]

This SlashDot article relates the results of 2600 Magazine's defense
against Ford Motor Co.: http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1225
(Warning, this article contains some very rude domain names that are not
necessarily suitable for children.)

In this case, Ford brought suit against 2600, the hacker magazine, for
pointing the domain F**kGeneralMotors.com at ford.com. Ford lost the
original case and has abandoned its appeals and the case has now been
sited in similar cases as supporting the right to link without
restriction. Quoting from the SlashDot article:

'2600, ... has expressly reserved the right to point
"F**kGeneralMotors.com" anyplace whatsoever that 2600 pleases --
including at the FORD homepage -- at any time whatsoever, with or
without notice.'

It seems like this might be an important piece of case law for the
unrestricted use of topic maps.

Cheers,

E.
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W. Eliot Kimber, eliot@isogen.com
Consultant, ISOGEN International

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