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Hi,

I attended an Internet World Exhibition in Paris the other day, and heard a
speech by a French lawyer from a firm specializing in Internet law. My
surprise was total. She said that whenever you linked to a site or a URL,
you should first ask permission. If you don't, the linked party can attack
you if they feel like it. And apparently links can be bought and sold.

I'm trying to laugh it off, because if it's true, I'm in trouble. I have
about 500 unauthorized links on my site, a multidisciplinary one for
getting students in the soft sciences started on the Net, sort of a poor
man's Yahoo!. If I have to write to all those webmasters, I think I'll
close up shop.

To clarify : this exhibition was 98% on the subject of how to help
businesses make money from the Internet. I suppose that my "for free"
approach is probably naive and outdated.

What do the stateside experts think? Where are your legal eagles?

Anne Sanouillet

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Prof. Anne Sanouillet           Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Urfist DEH                              (Droit-Economie-Humanites)
81, rue de France               http://www.unice.fr/UrfistDEH/
06000 Nice                              sanouill@unice.fr
Tel. 04 93 37 83 91                     Fax 04 93 37 97 08
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