- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:12:10 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> As far as I can tell, the attempt to prevent deep linking is motivated > by 1) loss of advertizing revenues and 2) loss of the end-user's tacit > agreement to terms of service on the original site. I think 1) needs generalising to include bypassing the sales pitch and therefore losing product/service revenue. For example, I don't think that the no deep linking condition on the UK D* optician's site is about advertising revenue. Another important reason, is that deep links can be used to criticise a company and I get the impression that companies believe such restrictions override the fair use/dealing permissions to physically quote, which would require some sort of deep link to the source (in the UK, at least), although not necessarily in machine processable form (UK fair dealing usually requires that the original source be credited). IANAL. I suspect though, that in many cases, this is a FUD exercise, in the same way it is said that large companies patent the obvious and rely on the cost of a challenge being too high.
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