Subject: Re: WWW & Copyright - is _linking_ illegal?
On 15 May 1995, Mike Blanche wrote:
[SNIP]
Seems like a stretch to me... but then what do I know?
Perhaps if your web-page had all of it's links behind a page with
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Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:30:33 -0700
Organization: South_Valley_Internet
References:
> I don't have any copyrighted stuff (other than my own) on my pages, but I
> did link to things on other people's sites that were copyrighted (eg.
> song lyrics) , and I am now told that to link to such things could make
> me a co-defendant in the charge of copyright breach. How is this? The
> stuff wasn't on my site, it wasn't even on this continent, so....?
>
a disclaimer to the effect that you had no responsibility for the content
of the linked pages, etc? Someone with more legal know-how would have
to advise you. If it did come down to it, I think that you'd get off
because of the nature of the web. Once the user has followed the link to
the remote page, you don't even provide a connection
service to them. The user's software establishes the link
directly to the remote page, bypassing you.
Bill Hudson; System Administrator; Robert Mann Packaging INC, Gilroy, CA USA
bill@rmp.com rmp@garlic.com BHudson@ix.netcom.com
Tel: 1-408-848-5440 Fax: 1-408-848-2063