NPR says: don't link to our web site

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:02:14 -0400, Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com> said:

> NPR's web site has announced an IMHO preposterous policy that
> prohibits linking to material on their web site.  

> "Linking to or framing of any material on this site without the
> prior written consent of NPR is prohibited."

The former is utter nonsense; the latter is probably a legitimate
exercise of NPR's copyright, at least within the bounds of whatever
shreds of Fair Use remain.  (To wit: the appearance of the NPR Web
pages is certainly subject to copyright; putting one of those pages in
a frame with additional material could be considered as creating a
derivative work.  A URI is purely functional and not subject to
copyright.)

-GAWollman