Re: [OS:N:] [OT]: is deep linking illegal?

"M. Fioretti" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.open-source-now
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 11:00:16 at 11:00:16AM -0400, Todd Warner ([email protected]) wrote:

> I suspect it is not illegal as news aggregators, e.g., linuxtoday,
> deeply link directly to articles at lots and lots of websites.
 
Well, I think the same thing, but the difference between what is
illegal and what is actually done all the time is huge (also because
illegal = often different from "right", whatever right is): just to
remember a topic hotly discussed here last summer, copying digital
music is damn sure illegal, but everybody does it.

What I mean is that yours and mine suspects, however making sense,
don't prove anything. That is why I was hoping to find pointers to
something official. Translating literally from that Italian message I
mentioned [square brackets are mine, to give context]:

#####################################################################
United States law, which is often used as reference [by the courts of
other countries when dealing with Internet matters] when there is no
specific [local] law, considers the use of framing and deep linking
illicit, unless not explicitly authorized by the owner of the linked
site. 
####################################################################

Any pointers?

TIA,
	Marco Fioretti

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