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Re:High Court ruling implies headlines are copyright by ig1 on Saturday November 27, 2010 @01:09PM (#1945457)
You missed the critical conditional of "when the owner's asked you not to do it".

A closer comparison might be passing information onto a friend, when the person who told you the information in the first place asked you not to pass it on.

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Re:High Court ruling implies headlines are copyright by carbocation on Saturday November 27, 2010 @01:12PM (#1945466)
No, I said what I meant. The ethics of the situation may indeed be driven by the conditionals, but the isomorphism is valid across all conditionals that you might apply. Thus, you can imagine some situations in which linking (or telling a friend) is unethical, just as you can imagine others in which it's not.
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