Sites concerning the legal implications of hyperlinking, including inlining and framing pages against their author's permission, and the legality of linking to sites containing illegal content. Deep Linking (17) Disputed Domain Names@ (301) Google Erasure of Anti-Scientology Links@ (28) Links to Copyrighted Material (6) Links to Illegal Material (8) Permission to Link (6) 1. 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] 2. Legal Issues on the Internet: Hyperlinking and Framing - Overview of issues in linking and framing disputes. [D-Lib magazine] 3. 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. 4. Linking and Crawling Issues - Attorney Ivan Hoffman outlines some cases over linking and related topics. 5. Linking and Liability - Technical aspects of linking and legal theories that may limit the right to link to other pages. [BitLaw] 6. 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] 7. Linking Policies for Public Web Sites - For librarians creating sites that link to others. Describes importance of having a linking policy, gives resources on policy creation, describes controversies. [LLRX.com] 8. Links & Law - Clearinghouse for news and legal cases about linking. 9. Netlitigation: Linking, Framing, and Metatags - Issue overview and case analyses. 10. 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] 11. The Link Controversy Page - Collection of information about the legal implications of hyperlinking, inlining and framing. 12. The Link to Liability - Editorial criticizing linking lawsuits and how the law is falling behind technology. [The American Lawyer] 13. 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] 14. What's all the Hype about Hyperlinking? - A brief overview of some linking regulation disputes. [Jeffrey R. Kuester and Peter A. Nieves] 15. Don't Link to Us! - Describing to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. 16. Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure - Commentary on challenges to linking rights. Free registration required. [NY Times] 17. Linking, Framing and Inlining - Information about the law relating to deep linking, framing, and IMG links. [Nolo]

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