Directory of Linking Law Resources

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Sites concerning the legal implications of hyperlinking, including inlining and framing pages against their author's permission, and the legality of linking to sites containing illegal content.

Subcategories

• Deep Linking
• Disputed Domain Names
• Google Erasure of Anti-Scientology Links
• Links to Copyrighted Material
• Links to Illegal Material
• Permission to Link

Resources in This Category

• Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html
  Commentary on challenges to linking rights. Free registration required. [NY Times]

• Legal Issues on the Internet: Hyperlinking and Framing

  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04orourke.html
  Overview of issues in linking and framing disputes. [D-Lib magazine]

• Linking and Crawling Issues

  http://www.ivanhoffman.com/linking.html
  Attorney Ivan Hoffman outlines some cases over linking and related topics.

• Linking and Liability

  http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/linking.html
  Technical aspects of linking and legal theories that may limit the right to link to other pages. [BitLaw]

• Links & Law

  http://www.linksandlaw.com/
  Clearinghouse for news and legal cases about linking.

• Netlitigation: Linking, Framing, and Metatags

  http://www.netlitigation.com/netlitigation/linking.htm
  Issue overview and case analyses.

• Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages

  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/1998_2/burk/
  A thesis that there is no legal grounds for excluding the operation of hypertext linkages. [JILT: The Journal of Information, Law and Technology]

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