In the US, a judge has ruled that "deep linking" to a public web site
is not copyright infringement in and of itself. It appears that a
danish court has ruled that deep-linking to pirate MP3s can be
contributory copyright infringement, because of the way browsers
automatically cause file download for MP3 files.
I have written on this issue:
See http://www.openly.com/link.openly/etiquette.html
I recommend this site for its thorough and international coverage:
http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/~s-bes1/lcp.html
The only things that realistically could cause you trouble are:
1. there is language in a contract you have executed with the
e-journal provider that explicitly bars such linking.
2. you use a link that exposes a password to the people who are not
authorized to view the content.
3. you present the link in such a way that the user could become
confused about the source- i.e. framing or mislabeling a site.
>A question from one of our academics: what is the legal position on linking to
>online journal articles from a bibliography / "course pack" or similar in a
>VLE? Would this require copyright clearance over and above the existing
>institutional licence? (I have a sneaking suspicion it would, but
>I'd love to be
>wrong.) Does anyone have experience of using VLEs in this way?
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>Judy Taylor
>Assistant Librarian
>(Periodicals / Academic Liaison)
>DUNDEE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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