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

[Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com>]

> <<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

I think we agree: framing is usually a misleading appropriation
of another site's content, whereas linking seldom misleads the
user about the source of information.  

Web sites can protect themselves by technical means
against misleading framing (e.g., the web sites of The
Washington Times and of CNN include code for this purpose).    

--RC



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