Ted Ashton writes:

> I know that there is a lot of settling-out which still has to happen wrt
> copyright on the net, but I expect that in the end, it will mirror fairly
> closely the rules for academic use of "traditional" articles.  In
specific,
> I doubt that providing a URL will be considered copying.

...unless the movie industry has anything to say about it.
See, for example, the court ruling against people linking to DeCSS source.

   http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-4616358-0.html

--Glenn