On 06/21/2010 08:46 AM, Norbert Klein wrote:
  What this pharma study seems to aim at is exactly what the censors and
> to court in Thailand applies to suppress the freedom of expression.
>
> You said that this is a "very dangerous precedent that courts (and even
> legislatures) have been unwilling to give" - if there is literature
> about this, please let me know.
>


Norbert (and others interested),
I've done some writing about intermediary liability and its problems for 
free speech, based on data collected at ChillingEffects.org:

Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the 
DMCA on the First Amendment, 24 Harvard Journal of Law & Tech. (2010) 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1577785>

Hope this helps,
--Wendy

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