Re: NPR says: don't link to our web site

[Joseph Pappalardo <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

Isn't this what Drudge has done on his website from
the get-go?

I would think everything he links to would exert the
same right...why haven't they?  (I wouldn't think most
of them probably wouldn't like to be associated with
Drudge.)




JP

--- Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I seem ro remember reading about cases on this issue
> and as I remember it, Garrett is generally correct. 
> But I seem to remember at least one court found that
> links to internal pages on a website can be
> copyright
> infringement.  The idea is that the owner has the
> right to route people through a cover page or pages.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
> 
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