This case was actually decided in one of the auction houses I think, Ebay?  I'd
have to look.  But deep linking is providing a link from your page, to a page
several layers deep in someone elses website.

For example, to download adobe acrobate reader, adobe quite naturally wants to
get some information from the user.  Lets say that I want my visitors to use
adobe, but not to plow through five+ pages of questions and advertisements, so I
figure out a way to link directly to the file download (copy the meta-refresh or
something similar).  This is an example of a deep link.  I've circumvented the
planned navigation of the website and altered their product in the process.

Does that help?

--JW

Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:

> John White wrote:
> > This raises a host of interesting copyright questions.
> > Archiving a website for
> > research purposes is probably not a violation.
> > Redistributing reprints of it,
> > without the original author's/poster's permission, is.
> > Mirroring it locally,
> > without permission, is.  In this day and age, even "deep
> > linking" can be
> > considered copyright infringement.
>
> What is "deep linking" and how can it be considered copyright infringement?
>
> ~Jenny Stromer-Galley
>
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