2d 1290 (D. Utah 1999), was a United States district court decision on the subject of deep linking and contributory infringement of copyright.
The defendants, on the other hand, Utah Lighthouse Ministries, Inc., operate a web site and publishes material critical of the Church.
The defendants had obtained a copy of the work and published parts of it on their website without reproducing the Intellectual Reserve, Inc. copyright notice.
[2] In this injunction, the court forbade Utah Lighthouse Ministry from posting on the Internet, displaying, or reproducing the Church Handbook of Instructions.
Lighthouse Ministry was further prohibited from posting on the Internet the URLs of any websites that hosted any materials from the Church Handbook of Instructions.