Re: Scott Rosenberg: Don't link or I'll sue!

[Geoffrey Dutton <dutton@spatial-effects.com>]

The message I take from this is that some people would rather litigate than
think. For the cost of a few lines of script, Ticketron and Universal could
redirect all deep page requests with an out-of-house referrer page to their
home pages. Instead they want to fabricate a corporate problem, risking
enormous potential expense and toxic fallout. Scott Rosenberg is right,
unfortunately; it is disturbing that the courts may have to sort out this
issue and make a bunch of artifical distinctions, especially given that
it's moot, bogus and highly annoying.

-Geoff Dutton


At 6:08 PM -0400 8/30/99, James Love wrote:
>This article is a few weeks old, but interesting.
>
>Is "interior linking" of web pages a violation of intellectual
>property rights?  It might be a good idea for groups like
>TACD or UPD to adopt resolutions supporting the rights of persons
>to link to other web pages.  Here is an article from Salon
>on this topic:
>
>Don't link or I'll sue!
>Scott Rosenberg, Salon:
>http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/1999/08/12/deep_links/index.html
>
>--
>James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
>I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
>by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org


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