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 -- Wendy Seltzer -- [log in to unmask] phone: +1.914.374.0613 Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center at University of Colorado Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/