- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:38:14 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
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Slashdot is reporting [1] that online travel agent Orbitz [2] will be prohibiting deep linking into their site after March 12, 2005. Quoting from the Orbitz terms and conditions referenced in the Slashdot posting: "Inbound Links We welcome links from a third party site to the home page of our Site, through a plain text link, provided that (a) you give Orbitz prior written notice of such link by contacting Orbitz Customer Service, to request Orbitz's permission to establish the link; (b) you discontinue providing a link to our Site if so requested by Orbitz; (c) you do not imply in any fashion that Orbitz is endorsing any of your products or service or is affiliated with you, (d) you do not present Orbitz in a false light, or provide misleading or false information about Orbitz, or its Site or Services, (e) you do not remove or obscure the copyright notices, or other notices on this Site; (f) you do not use any Mark of Orbitz; and (g) you do not replicate, frame or mirror the content of the Site. We reserve the right to require you to remove links to the Site, in our sole discretion. ==> Linking to any page of the Site other than to the homepage is strictly prohibited in the absence of a separate linking agreement with Orbitz." (emphasis added...NRM) Given the Tag's work on deepLinking-25 [3] and the resulting finding [4], this development seems to be pertinent to the TAG's work. I find it ironic that the Slashdot article's reference to these terms is itself a deep link into the Orbitz site, and might itself be probibited after the policy takes effect on March 12. Noah [1] http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/02/14/0358202.shtml?tid=95&tid=17 [2] http://www.orbitz.com/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#deepLinking-25 [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking-20030911 -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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