"Don't link me!"

Steve at Rodent Regatta posted a link to an article almost two years ago. The writer of that article recently commented on that post. She said he was violating her copyright and asked him to remove the link.

First of all, what's this about a link being a "copyright violation"? That's downright silly.

Secondly, even if the post had a brief excerpt from the article, that would be well within Fair Use rights, would it not?

Finally, this writer must not want her work to be read if she's going around telling people not to link her. I certainly hope Google and other search engines haven't indexed her article or even (**gasp**) cached it.

It's too bad that this blog is defunct.