I wasn't aware that deep linking might leave one legally vulnerable. (and thanks for the description, John) It's hard for me to imagine how deep linking could be illegal. Take the case of Ticketmaster, as Amanda suggested. It sounds like Ticketmaster was able to successfully sue someone who found a way to get to internal pages, bypassing the advertisements. That would be like suing Tevo for allowing people to watch TV and skip the advertisements. I just don't see how it could be illegal to enable people to link from, say, my website to another website, even if it bypasses the top level pages. I could see a problem if I were somehow able to bypass a "members-only" or "private" area of the website, enabling people who weren't members to access that private or exclusive information. But, for public information, including advertisements, I don't follow the logic that it would be illegal to link deeply into a site. Perhaps, I'm using the wrong metaphor (i.e. Tevo). But, if I am, than what's a better one? ~Jenny
Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:
I wasn't aware that deep linking might leave one legally vulnerable. (and thanks for the description, John)
It's hard for me to imagine how deep linking could be illegal.
it was slightly different i think. i think the new pages made it appear as if the pages belonged to the new party instead of belonging to to ticketmaster as i recall. It would be like slipping in a chapter of a book someone else wrote into your book.
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Males me think of the protocols for making copies of something you've published available on the web. I have done this extensively: www.bendavidson.co.uk/professional_pages/publications/books/estrife/index.ht m ...and expect at some point one of my publishers to get pissed off with me about it. I read an interesting piece in the Guadian last Sumer by an academic in SW England - I'll look it up - who found a way around publishers' disquiet at this, simply by calling what is on the web 'pre-publication version'. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Deep Linking
It would be like slipping in a chapter of a book someone else wrote into your book.
Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:
That would be like suing Tivo for allowing people to watch TV and skip the advertisements.
Actually, the networks are suing Replay TV for exactly that - producing a device which allows users to bypass their ads. (It also does some other things the networks don't like, such as allowing users to email entire shows to other Replay users.) -- Ted Friedman Assistant Professor Department of Communication Georgia State University http://www.tedfriedman.com
i know with my own site host i am supposed to always enter through the index page and traffic is monitored....although i am guilty of posting questionnaires which are unlinked and then giving the url to interviewees...is this considered to be deep linking too? i also am doing an online ethnography of an internet community and sometimes use graphics etc that i have posted without links on my webpages...so when my particular internet community home is accessed there is a 'deep-link' back to my own website i didn't consider this to be particularly illegal (apart from being against the wishes of a company that i pay to host my web pages)...but i wouldn't appreciate it if strangers linked back to my graphics in order to enhance their own web sites.(i use the word enhance loosely!!) Hmmm...makes me think! D.M.CARTER DOCTORAL STUDENT CASS UNIVERSITY OF HULL EMAIL: d.m.carter@cas.hull.ac.uk OR: denisecarter@denisecarter.net WEB PAGES: http://www.denisecarter.net
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