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Link is effectively a plain text citation

A link is effectively a plain text source citation. Expanding copyright protection to limit linking would either introduce inefficiencies—requriing people to copy and paste the source citation into the url bar—or prevent people from adding footnotes, another fundamental writing practice.

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