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Mormon Church v. Sandra and Jerald Tanner
In a ruling of December 1999, a federal judge in Utah temporarily barred two critics of the Mormon Church from posting on their website the Internet addresses of other sites featuring pirated copies of a Mormon text. The Judge said that it was likely that Sandra and Jerald Tanner had engaged in contributory copyright infringement when they posted the addresses of three Web sites that they knew, or should have known, contained the copies.
Kaplan, Carl S.:  Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link. In: New York Times. December 10, 1999.
Universal Studios v. Movie-List
The website Movie-List, which features links to online, externally hosted movie trailers has been asked to completely refrain from linking to any of Universal Studio's servers containing the trailers as this would infringe copyright.
Cisneros, Oscar S.: Universal: Don't Link to Us. In: Wired. July 27, 1999.
More cases concerned with the issue of linking,  framing and the infringement of intellectual property are published in:
Ross, Alexandra: Copyright Law and the Internet: Selected Statutes and Cases.
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Internet Society
Founded in 1992, the Internet Society is an umbrella organization of several mostly self-organized organizations dedicated to address the social, political, and technical issues, which arise as a result of the evolution and the growth of the Net. Its most important subsidiary organizations are the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Steering Group, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Research Task Force, and the Internet Societal Task Force.
Its members comprise companies, government agencies, foundations, corporations and individuals. The Internet Society is governed by elected trustees.
http://www.isoc.org
 http://www.isoc.org/
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