Lukol Directory: Society: Law: Legal Information: Computer and Technology Law: Internet: Linking Law

What's all the Hype about Hyperlinking?
A brief overview of some linking regulation disputes. [Jeffrey R. Kuester and Peter A. Nieves]
http://www.patentperfect.com/hyper.htm

Don't Link to Us!
Describing to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them.
http://www.dontlink.com/

Linking, Framing and Inlining
Information about the law relating to deep linking, framing, and IMG links. [Nolo]
http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/C...

Linking and Liability
Technical aspects of linking and legal theories that may limit the right to link to other pages. [BitLaw]
http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/linking.htm...

Linking Policies for Public Web Sites
For librarians creating web sites that link to others, describes importance of having a linking policy, gives resources on policy creation, describes controversies.
http://www.llrx.com/features/internetwaves...

Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages
A thesis that there is no legal grounds for excluding the operation of hypertext linkages. [JILT: The Journal of Information, Law and Technology]
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/...

Thinking About Linking
Can law accommodate the power of the Internet to share information? An overview of how old legal rules are being adapted to new media technology. [Law Library Resource Xchange]
http://www.llrx.com/features/weblink1.htm

Links & Law
Clearinghouse for news and legal cases about linking.
http://www.linksandlaw.com/

Link.Openly: Etiquette
"The law has decided very little about hyperlinking, so custom and practice is a much better guide for implementers and publishers of hyperlinks." Suggestions for linking formats.
http://www.openly.com/link.openly/etiquett...

Legal Issues on the Internet: Hyperlinking and Framing
Overview of issues in linking and framing disputes. [D-Lib magazine]
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04orourke...

The Link to Liability
Editorial criticizing linking lawsuits and how the law is falling behind technology. [The American Lawyer]
http://www.cli.org/DPost/Linking.html

Copyright Issues Present Ongoing Dilemma: To Link or Not To Link?
Addresses the legal and ethical issues behind the online copying and distribution of news content. [Online Journalism Review]
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/ethics/1065049186.p...

The Link Controversy Page
Collection of information about the legal implications of hyperlinking, inlining and framing.
http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/bechtold/...

Netlitigation: Linking, Framing, and Metatags
Issue overview and case analyses.
http://www.netlitigation.com/netlitigation...

Linking Copyright to Homepages
A law review article examining the legal implications of "links", including liability and copyright. Concludes that a linking page is analogous to the publisher of a telephone book. [Federal Communications Law Journal]
http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/n...

Linking and Crawling Issues
Attorney Ivan Hoffman outlines some cases over linking and related topics.
http://www.ivanhoffman.com/linking.html

Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure
Commentary on challenges to linking rights. Free registration required. [NY Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/...

Sub Topics:
Disputed Domain Names
Google Erasure of Anti-Scientology Links
Permission to Link
Deep Linking
Links to Illegal Material
Links to Copyrighted Material


Related Topics:
Society: Issues: Science and Technology: Computers: Internet: Copyright
Society: Law: Legal Information: Intellectual Property: Copyrights
Reference: Libraries: Library and Information Science: Intellectual Property



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