Permission to link

June 15th, 2008

Have I got this right? Scan to the bottom of Jon Dale’s Real Time review of the Adelaide Contemporary Music Festival and you’ll find this:

for permission to link or reproduce apply to realtime@realtimearts.net

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One Response to “Permission to link”

  1. Peter Hollo Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    There is no such thing as permission to link. It’s certainly good netiquette under certain circumstances to request permission before linking (e.g. an entry in someone’s personal LJ, an academic paper) but one can’t withhold permission to link to a freely-available resource on the net, whatever RealTime or many other organisations might think.

    Must add, boy Jon Dale’s writing pisses me off. I don’t doubt his erudition, but he needs to lose the po-mo crap and write more about music than Theory. Now I have to read him every month in Wire, and he’s worse than the older Wire writers ;)

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