[CPI-UA] FW: [CC] Danish court cuts off deep linking. (fwd)

[Russell McOrmond]

  We need to fight this strongly.   It should be up to the website 
accepting the links, not the site providing the link, to interpret the 
link in any way it sees fit.   To allow technical incompetancy to become 
part of the Law is extremely dangerous.

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Subject: [CPI-UA] FW: [CC] Danish court cuts off deep linking.



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Subject: [CC] Danish court cuts off deep linking.



[EUR, IPR - 09.07.2002] Court cuts off deep linking.  (ZDNet)
In one of the first legal decisions to ban so-called deep linking, a
Danish court has ruled that a news site cannot provide hyperlinks to
certain Web pages without the permission of publishers. Under the ruling,
news aggregator Newsbooster is banned from providing some deep links--or
links to Web pages other than a site's front door--from its site or
newsletters. It's unclear whether the ruling by Copenhagen's lower
bailiff's court will have broader ramifications for the Web. The decision
only prevents Newsbooster from deep linking to the Danish Newspaper
Publishers Association's 28 sites. However, deep linking is becoming a
more contentious topic across the globe as dot-coms of all stripes seek
more control over their traffic and advertising targets. Legal experts
said the decision might not have any direct effect on most sites, but it
opens the door for courts to examine more closely the practice of deep
linking. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-942212.html

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