Re: [CNI-COPYRIGHT] Framing in a.k.a. Branding outside Web Resources

At 08:28 AM 4/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Friends:
>
>Our IT department is doing a remake of our website and is
>pushing to "frame in" outside resources. What they propose to
>do is this:

[description of framing]

An extensive collection of material on the case law of this issue maintained by Stefan Bechtold can be found at http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/~s-bes1/lcp.html

 From the site's self-description: "The Link Controversy Page is intended to provide an overview of the legal problems of using hyperlinks, inline images and frames on the WWW. Right now, this page covers problems in the area of copyright, trademark, trespass law as well as unfair competition law. "

Brad Templeton (a frequent contributor to CNI-COPYRIGHT, at least in bygone days) also has a site worth looking at: http://www.templetons.com/brad/linkright.html

The sheer number of cases still being brought on this and related issues makes it clear that, regardless of one's sense of right and wrong, the legal entanglements could become gnarly. I for one was rather pleased with the Kelly v Arriba decision(s) on thumbnails -- it would appear that the folks at Google were too.

On the technical side, it is relatively simple to include code in a web page which prevents a page from being framed. Hence some techy would-be-framers think of this teapot as tempest-proofable and ask why those who might fuss left their doors unlocked in the first place. Such an argument is somewhat reminiscent of the sentiment that victims deserve what they get; it seems to have met mixed reviews in court.

David Dailey Received on Sat Apr 05 2003 - 04:44:23 GMT