At 05:03 PM 12/16/98 -0800, Uncle Roger wrote:
>
>I seem to remember a lawsuit not too long ago wherein Ticketmaster sued
>Microsoft (I think) because MS had put a link to TM's web site on their
>Sidewalk site. Seemed silly then, and seems silly now.
There have been other cases where sites were "framing" content from
other people's sites - imagine a super-news site that gave you the
impression all the content was their own, but that only embedded
(via links) content made by others, side-stepping their menus
and banners, etc. Today's relevant bit from TBTF below.
- John
..How much trouble can you get into by linking?
Current case law on downloading or linking copyrighted material
This National Law Journal article [8] runs through existing case law
relating to fair use, linking, framing, and copying Net content, for
example for use on an intranet. Of particular interest is the dis-
cussion of "deep links": links directly to content buried within a
site, bypassing its top page (which presumably carries advertising).
TBTF is strongly biased to use such "rifle-shot" links. The author
cites the case of TicketMaster Corp. v. Microsoft Corp.-- and mad-
deningly does not report the actual outcome -- in concluding
> With respect to the company's use of hyperlinks on its
> intranet, legal scholarship on this issue... suggests that
> hyperlinks will not give rise to liability if the linked
> sites' home pages are the destinations. Liability appears
> likely to attach only if deep links are used.
Thanks to Monty Solomon for the NLJ cite.
[8]
http://www.ljx.com/cgi-bin/f_cat?prod/ljextra/data/texts/1998_1207_56.html
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Received on Thu Dec 17 1998 - 09:14:53 GMT