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title: Links aren't performances
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_"For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a "performance" of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had posted, he infringed on copyright._

_This is a perverse, even surreal take on copyright. The court rejects Linkletter's argument that even Youtube's terms of service warned Proctorio that publishing world-viewable material on its site constituted permission for people to link to and watch that material."_


Via: [Pluralistic](https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter)
