FC: Disabling graphics in web browsers violates copyright law

[Declan McCullagh <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
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