can I copy? can I link?

On the matter of displaying another's work on the internet, the courts have spoken several times recently, and in broad strokes, this is what they say:
It is OK to link to another's page (with the notable exception of the DVD crack) but the link cannot be displayed inside a frame so that the source of the displayed page is obscured (unless one has permission from the owner).
It is *not* OK to copy copyrighted images from someone's page and redisplay them on your own page, again unless one has permission from the owner.
This is my recollection of what my intellectual property lawyer friend told me. If anyone wants definitive rulings, I can email him and get some links to more authoritative voices.

I took Jacky Ekstasis' comments as a somewhat lighthearted tweak. If he was being slyly vicious, then he has been properly swatted. If he hit a sore spot in honest jest, I would say he has been overly vilified. We all know, I think, that we need theorists, musicians, composers, and promoters, but we also need jesters. Many of us have been inadvertently rude from time to time, but let's be a little forgiving, even while being teased.

My post about the tape swap was regarding Denis Atadan's swap of 1997(?). I offered a cleaned up CD master to anyone willing to undertake distributing it as a CD. If you haven't heard the tape, maybe you can get someone to make you a copy. There is some cool stuff on it.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html