- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:25:37 -0600
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Maybe everybody else knows this, but it's news to me: [[The disappearance of hyperlinks from online newspapers is due to a court case[1] in which the judge ruled that hyperlinks to copyrighted material were illegal. Although this was a ruling against the 2600 website, other online newspapers have interpreted this to mean that they too could be held accountable for links to questionable sites. But note that “the judgment did not specifically prohibit 2600 from providing non-hyperlinked URLs of web sites that provide DeCSS”, which is why you’ll find non-hyperlinked URLs at the end of, for example, some New York Times articles.]] -- http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/01/09/ general_motors_is_blogging#comment-3146 [1] A Review of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in Its First Application Against Decryption Software by Mick Weiland http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/lawand/papers/fa00/weiland/ Perhaps fodder for our finding... http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking.html see also... http://esw.w3.org/topic/PoorMansHypertext -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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