> [Scott, John F] I must have missed the relevant discussion, but why is deep
> linking legally dodgy? I know some sites prefer you to link only to their
> main page, but then some authors prefer you to read their books from cover
> to cover, starting at the first page.
>
> Citations enable you to find the specific piece of information they're
> referring you to - why should hyperlinks be different?
>
> John
some companies want people to come into their site via the front
door (if they had constitent branding and navigation on every page i
really don't see why that's a problem but that's how it is). a few
years back ticketmaster (if i remember the details right), a US site
sued an events listings site for linking directly to the pages where
people could get tickets for a certain event. they claimed it looked
like these pages were part of the events listing site. my memory is
hazy on the details but basically that's how it all started. this was
esp. a problem because weblogging had just taken off.
personally i think it's extremely silly and totally against the original
spirit of the internet as a hyperlinked resource. it's what happenes
when businesses and lawyers move in on something good.
iris
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