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Can "Deep Linking" Lead to Deep Trouble?

Date: May 17, 2002
Author: Brian Morrissey
QUOTE: The judge [in a case involving Ticketmaster] ruled that deep links do not violate copyright law.... In a brutal advertising environment, publishers are willing to do whatever they can to generate page views -- even threaten legal action on shaky ground.

ABSTRACT: The legal precedents seem very clear that deep linking (connecting to any page on a website, not just the homepage or a designated page) is an activity that is the very basis of the World Wide Web, not a copyright-infringing activity (disclaimer-- "I'm not a lawyer"). Runners World magazine (Rodale) appears to have been trying to intimidate a small company with legal threats when the small company's actions were hardly out of line.

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