{"id":1943,"date":"2005-03-20T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-03-20T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T00:03:08","slug":"so-sue-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/20\/so-sue-me\/","title":{"rendered":"So Sue Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dear <a href=http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/021877.php>Professor Reynolds<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>I find it passing strange that a law professor with an interest in all things Internet (and presumably, free speech) would ignore <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1934_0_1_0>Stephen Schwartz&#8217;s legal bullying of Antiwar.com about hyperlinking<\/a>. Yes, yes, it&#8217;s fascinating that Justin Raimondo changed his given name as a teenager \u2013 that fact doubtless invalidates everything he has ever written \u2013 but when you&#8217;re done covering that momentous issue, could you please spare a little time to explain to Mr. Schwartz the legality of linking?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help, which I&#8217;m sure is forthcoming. <\/p>\n<p>Best,<br \/>\nMatt Barganier<\/i><\/p>\n<p>By the way, any bloggers interested in maintaining the right to hyperlink can <a href=mailto:karastjepan@yahoo.com>e-mail Mr. Schwartz<\/a> with their concerns. Or you can just keep his attorney busy by providing <a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/images\/issues\/200303u\/int2003-03-20pic.jpg>a link to his photograph<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 9:30 p.m.: <a href=http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/021897.php>Instapundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>I think that AntiWar.com has the better of the law here, but I think that web etiquette is being violated all around. I think it&#8217;s OK to link somebody&#8217;s image if you&#8217;re not causing them bandwidth problems, but I think that it&#8217;s churlish not to take the link down if they complain. On the other hand, it&#8217;s also churlish to complain too readily.<\/ul>\n<p>Uh, thanks, Glenn, but you missed the point. He wasn&#8217;t complaining about bandwidth \u2013 check the url on <a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/images\/issues\/200303u\/int2003-03-20pic.jpg>the photo in question<\/a>. And he didn&#8217;t merely complain, he threatened legal action. The totalitarian Schwartz thinks he can tell everyone on the Web what they can and cannot link to. That should bother even you.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Professor Reynolds, I find it passing strange that a law professor with an interest in all things Internet (and presumably, free speech) would ignore Stephen Schwartz&#8217;s legal bullying of Antiwar.com about hyperlinking. Yes, yes, it&#8217;s fascinating that Justin Raimondo changed his given name as a teenager \u2013 that fact doubtless invalidates everything he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}