IP: Re: copyrighting a URL *link*??!!

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:04:36 -0700
From: Jeff Hodges <Jeff.Hodges () Stanford edu>
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To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>, Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>


[for IP..]


> Jim Warren lamented...
>
> I just got this note from a long-time friend and former reporter and 
> editor in Palo Alto, Californica <sic>.  GEEZ! -- what *will* the 
> bucks-hustlers and control-freaques think of next?!


Seems this sort of fine-grained lawyerin' has been in the works for a while.
Check out the article references below. Basically, one prime assertion is that
if you link way down into a advertising-supported site (for example) and thus
bring readers to the site and facilitate their missing the advertising they
would otherwise have seen, then you're infringing on the target site's owner's
(copy)rights -- so says a couple of recent court decisions, apparently. 


There was an in-depth article about precisely this in Intel. Property Today (I
thought) but I can't find that exact one (I've sent a a query to IP Today
about it). The articles below from IP Today and Wired News are solidly in this
vein, though.


Jeff
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Cyberspace Intellectual Property Rights Issues articles in "Intellectual
Property Today"...


[http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/index.htm]


The Next Chapter In Cyber-Copyright Law: Marobie-FL, Inc. v. Nafed
http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/current/kupf.htm


Warning: Reading This Article Does Not Violate Copyright Law
http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/06-98/kupfer.htm


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Patenting ~electrical signals~ ??!@$#%  -- article in "Intellectual Property
Today"...


A New Frontier In Patents: Patent Claims To Propagated Signals
http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/current/horst.htm


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Some Web-linking and copyright infringement articles from Wired News...


TotalNews Pokes a Stick at Big Media Again
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/4385.html


Intellicast Smartens Up to Banner Bypass
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/2844.html


TotalNews Settles with Media Giants over Links
http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/4286.html


TotalNews Stops Para-Site Content/Ad Framing
http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/4204.html


Para-Site Draws Ire, Suit from News Giants
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/2230.html


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General resource...


Cyberspace Law Institute
http://www.cli.org/





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