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FC: Disabling graphics in web browsers violates copyright law

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:33:51 -0400 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Disabling graphics in web browsers violates copyright law Send reply to: declan@well.com

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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:12:27 -0400 To: declan@well.com From: Doug Isenberg <disenberg@gigalaw.com> Subject: Pop-up ads and the law

Declan:

As you know, a district court judge recently entered a preliminary injunction against Gator in a lawsuit brought by numerous website news publishers over Gator's pop-up advertising service. In my most recent column for The Wall Street Journal Online (now available on GigaLaw.com at http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2002/isenberg-2002-08.html), I examine the potential greater effect of this lawsuit. For example: "Terence Ross of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the news publishers' attorney, even told me that he thinks Internet users who configure their browsers to disable graphics (a common tactic to boost the speed of Web surfing) are committing copyright infringement because they are interfering with Web publishers' exclusive right to control how their pages are displayed."

Doug Isenberg, Esq. Author, "The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law" (Random House, October 2002): http://www.GigaLaw.com/guide FREE daily Internet law news via e-mail! Subscribe today: http://www.GigaLaw.com/news

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