Well, Spank My Ass And Call Me Charley....
Don't link to meeeeeee. Wrong again, bucko. The idea that one must have permission before linking to something happily available on the Internet is ridiculous! If they don't want people READING it, don't PUT it on the INTERNET. Is it ok for me to spam 10 million people with the link, but NOT ok to put it on my website? Try again.
From Larry Lessig:
So there's a blog first created by the volunteers who watched Fox to create the data necessary to produced OutFoxed. They posted an item about a Bill O'Reilly column, which itself was posted on the web. The company syndicating O'Reilly's column wrote them a nasty letter, telling them to take the column down. They did, and replaced it with a link. The same company wrote again, insisting that the blog was guilty of "unauthorized linking."
Dear syndicators of Bill: Me thinks there's no such concept as illegal linking (outside of China, at least, and please, don't pester me with misreadings of the 2600 case). Indeed, I think that I, like anyone else, am perfectly free to link to the column, as this link does. And indeed, I'd invite anyone else out there who thinks that we still live in a FREE LINKING world to link to the same. Got to find some way to keep those lawyers busy.
[Lessig Blog]