Defending the right to link from a wiki

Posted by Angela Beesley on January 13, 2007 (Politics, Wiki)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation are defending a wiki editor’s right to link to an external site. This is the EFF’s first wiki case according to Larry Lessig.

Fred von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney of the EFF, is defending the rights of an anonymous citizen-journalist to link from the public Zyprexa PBWiki to copies of leaked Eli Lilly documents. The documents are related to the controversial prescription drug Zyprexa and, according to the New York Times, show that the company intentionally downplayed the drug’s side effects.

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Update: 13 February: “Eli Lilly Loses Effort to Censor Zyprexa Documents Off the Internet” - the judge rescinded the injunction against the wiki.