FC: Latest linking spat: Dallas Morning News sends silly nastygrams

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Politech archive on linking:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=linking

Something I wrote two years ago that's suprisingly *not* too dated:
http://www.tnr.com/online/mccullagh052300.html

"News web sites try to charge for links to articles"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01589.html

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52213,00.html

   [...]
   
   Now Adelman is locked in a battle against the Belo media corporation,
   owner of The Dallas Morning News, which sent him a legalistic letter
   this week demanding that BarkingDogs.org remove all "deep links" to
   the DallasNews.com site.
   
   "Deep links" point to specific content within a site, allowing readers
   to bypass the site's front page. Instead of linking to a specific
   article within The Dallas Morning News's site, Belo wants Adelman to
   only link to the site's main page.
   
   "As you may know, the Belo content (various news articles) is
   protected by copyright laws of the United States," the company's legal
   letter states. "Accordingly, we must request that you cease and desist
   from any unauthorized use of the Belo content, including without
   limitation, allowing users of BarkingDogs.org to deep link directly to
   the Belo content or from posting, without prior written permission,
   any other Belo content on BarkingDogs.org.

   "Any proper links to the Belo content should be directly hyperlinked
   to The Dallas Morning News homepage located at www.dallasnews.com."

   [...]



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