🚀 go-pugleaf

It's always a courtesy to tell someone you are linking to their site --
particularly if you are Yahoo or Netscape <g> as the resulting traffic
on your server could swamp you if you weren't careful.

The issue w/links that are contentious has to do with using frames to
"repackage" content so it looks like yours -- then selling advertising
-- or using frames/and/or other vehicles to link deep into a web site
and forego their ability to obtain click-thru dollars (MSFT v.
Ticketmaster).

If links were verbotton <?sp> .. then sites like
http://www.miningco.com/ would be in trouble .. as would Yahoo, etc.
etc.


Kathy

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> From:         Anne Sanouillet[SMTP:sanouill@hivaoa.unice.fr]
> Sent:         Wednesday, September 30, 1998 7:10 AM
> To:   NETTRAIN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
> Subject:      To link or not to link?
>
> 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 approach is probably naive and outdated.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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