https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/permission-to-link-contd/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:17:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/permission-to-link-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-87659 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:17:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16912#comment-87659 What’s really weird is that it appears that they are claiming that no one can even link to the top-level of their site without permission. This is not simply a ban on deep linking.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/permission-to-link-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-87646 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:21:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16912#comment-87646 This is like outlawing bibliographies. The ability to reference other works is almost the complete underlying basis of modern scholarship. It’s hard to stand on the shoulders of giants when someone keeps kicking their legs out from under them.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/permission-to-link-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-87640 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:50:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16912#comment-87640 The very essence of the Web, in fact the reason it is called the World Wide “Web”, is that it is a system of documents that link to one another. If you don’t believe in the linking part of it, then you should stay off the web.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/04/permission-to-link-contd/comment-page-1/#comment-87628 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:23:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16912#comment-87628 I wish I’d thought of that. Can you imagine how many inbound links that claim will result in?

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