> Paul Chimicz wrote -
...
> This all raises an interesting point which is "Should web sites be
> seen as copyright entities rather than just the pages that they
> hold?" i.e. by linking to a page on someone else's site directly are
> we technically infringing their copyright anyway? Sometimes the owner
> will encourage this sort of use but I suspect that case law may one
> day forbid it without explicit permission. Comments welcome.
This will happen once standards for describing "web collections" have been
defined.
At present it's difficult to define collections of pages, and to provide
automated processes to be applied to the collection (e.g. "this set of pages
can't be linked to directly, you have to link to this entry point"). This
currently has to be implemented in a application specific way (e.g. checking
the referrer field and giving a redirect, which is presumably how the
lawyers website described by Charles works).
The notion of web collections is beginning to emerge e.g. see
http://my.netscape.com/publish/
Standards for machine readable definitions of web usage are also emerging
e.g. see W3C's P3P work (http://www.w3c.org/P3P/). IT Week (12 April) had a
news item on this "Microsoft and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have
announced guidelines to implement Privacy Preferences Project as the
standard privacy framework on Web sites".
Brian
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