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"Reproduction or distribution of any materials obtained on this website or linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html

What? :)




From one of my previous comments in another thread (this past week, probably):

> IANAL

> What I think they mean by this is that you shouldn't link to resources on their website to make it seem like they endorse your (product, website, whatever).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153873


Haven't the courts ruled you don't need permission to have a link?


Didn't even know this was a thing.


Just make sure that all your links are copyrighted works (authored by you of course) and then DMCA anywhere the link appears.


That's so crazy it might just work. I checked an article about copyright protection for short phrases[0] and learnt that a court ruled that the text “I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent” is protected by copyright. It would thus be possible for the author of that phrase to register:

i-may-not-be-totally-perfect-but-parts-of-me-are-excellent.com

and sue anyone who links to them. Hopefully the author will be so grateful for this insight that they won't sue me for reproducing their copyrighted work in this comment.

[0] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...




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