- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:58:11 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- CC: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On 3/9/2011 12:46 PM, Larry Masinter wrote: > I thought we discussed this before and had come to some conclusions, but perhaps not.This is not primarily about deep linking, which is what our earlier discussions about. Although, for now, ISSUE-25 is the closest, this is about the assertion that links to copyright material can constitute infringement of that copyright; the deep linking argument is basically the claim that you can link to something like a site's home page, but not to the pages "behind" that page (distinctions I don't necessarily endorse, advocates of a no-deep-linking policy do). > What I remember is: > > * the TAG would not issue legal opinions I'm not sure we made a long term commitment, but I personally don't think we are competent to issue such opinions, certainly not without first getting the advice of counsel. What we can do, and might wish to do here, is to explain to those who do work with the law how the Web is designed, and what some of the technical, architectural, and to the extent we are competent to judge, social implications are of using or prohibiting use of various Web mechanisms. > * the TAG might author something about conventions for deep linking and standard industry practice We have published [1], and could do more. > * This would be best and most effective if the document were open for full community review and reflected consensus [1] was so reviewed, and we might do similar things in the future. I think it's also well within our charter to provide advice to Tim in his role as director, and to the W3C team, regarding matters like this. I see no obligation in all cases to seek public review first, though there may be often be value in doing so. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking-20030911
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