Boing Boing has some more coverage on the whole NPR linking issue. It appears that Wired has an article on it where they interview NPR's Ombudsman. In reading this I once again want to ask the question, "What are you doing on the web if you don't want people linking to you." The web exists as it does today because it lets people easily link from one site to another. To those who don't like that, tough luck.
Here are some other things I just thought of. What are the limits of this. Is it okay to tell someone a link? How about print it in a print publication? Is it illegal to mention an print article in a magazine(not reprint it, just mention it)? How about if you tell someone it is from the July 25th issue on page 6?
Didn't Small Pieces Loosely Joined talk about this some too? I'd look it up myself, but I've lent out my book to my boss. (Hey look, The book was talked about on All Things Considered a few months ago too).