Re: Linking and breaking news

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, James Love <love[_at_]cptech.org> ha scritto:
>
> Given the large number of commerical news organizations on the Internet,
> as well as non-commerical sites that report news in niche areas, is
> there any jurisprudence on the issue of linking to stories on other
> people's web sites?

There are at least two major cases: The Washington Post Co. and others v. Totalnews and The Shetland Times Ltd. v. Jonathan Wills and others. Without any pretence of completeness I suggest to you some Websites where you can find a lot of excellent informations:

   http://www.ljx.com/internet ; 
   http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/linking.html ; 
   http://www.weblaw.co.uk/ ; 
   http://www.twobirds.com/

Best regards,
Davide

Davide Consonni
<consonni[_at_]pn.itnet.it> Received on Thu Jan 28 1999 - 17:24:56 GMT