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Date:   8/23/99  2:50 PM

RE:     Recent Articles on Legality of Hypertext Linking



NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources & Issues
from across the Community
August 23, 1999



           "Ticketmaster Sues Again Over Links," by Bob Tedeschi
                        New York Times, August 10
   http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html


    "Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure," by Carl Kaplan
                        New York Times, August 6
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html

These two fairly recent article from the New York Times attest to the
continuing concern about the legality, or advisedness, of linking,
especially deep-linking, to certain web material. Although the cases
involving commercial linkage to commercial sites may be comparatively
clear, the cases involving the non-commercial use of commercial sites are
perhaps those more compelling for this community.

An incident related to the two specific cases cited in these two articles
was that involving art museums, in the Spring, protesting the deep-linking
to digital reproductions of works in their collections by the on-line Grove
Dictionary of Art, published by Macmillan (see the article in the May 13
New York Times, "Art Online: The Internet Mounts a Masterpiece,"
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/circuits/articles/13grov.html ).

David Green
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