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Subject: IP: Re: copyrighting a URL *link*??!!
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:04:36 -0700 From: Jeff Hodges <Jeff.Hodges@Stanford.edu> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; U) To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>, Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com> [for IP..] > Jim Warren lamented... > > I just got this note from a long-time friend and former reporter and > editor in Palo Alto, Californica <sic>. GEEZ! -- what *will* the > bucks-hustlers and control-freaques think of next?! Seems this sort of fine-grained lawyerin' has been in the works for a while. Check out the article references below. Basically, one prime assertion is that if you link way down into a advertising-supported site (for example) and thus bring readers to the site and facilitate their missing the advertising they would otherwise have seen, then you're infringing on the target site's owner's (copy)rights -- so says a couple of recent court decisions, apparently. There was an in-depth article about precisely this in Intel. Property Today (I thought) but I can't find that exact one (I've sent a a query to IP Today about it). The articles below from IP Today and Wired News are solidly in this vein, though. Jeff ------------------------------------- Cyberspace Intellectual Property Rights Issues articles in "Intellectual Property Today"... [http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/index.htm] The Next Chapter In Cyber-Copyright Law: Marobie-FL, Inc. v. Nafed http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/current/kupf.htm Warning: Reading This Article Does Not Violate Copyright Law http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/06-98/kupfer.htm ------------------------------------- Patenting ~electrical signals~ ??!@$#% -- article in "Intellectual Property Today"... A New Frontier In Patents: Patent Claims To Propagated Signals http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/current/horst.htm ------------------------------------- Some Web-linking and copyright infringement articles from Wired News... TotalNews Pokes a Stick at Big Media Again http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/4385.html Intellicast Smartens Up to Banner Bypass http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/2844.html TotalNews Settles with Media Giants over Links http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/4286.html TotalNews Stops Para-Site Content/Ad Framing http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/4204.html Para-Site Draws Ire, Suit from News Giants http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/2230.html ------------------------------------- General resource... Cyberspace Law Institute http://www.cli.org/ -- Jeff Hodges Jeff.Hodges@Stanford.edu Senior Technical Staff voice: +1 650 723 2452 Directory Services and PKI fax: +1 650 723 0908 Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~hodges/
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