Re: Linking and breaking news

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, James Love <love[_at_]cptech.org> asked:
>
> 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?

The only case on which I know the details settled out of court:

  http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/tel-shet.htm

I have a vague recollection that there might have been a decision in Germany...

--
Mike Holderness
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/
<mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk>

 The proposal of any new order or regulation of commerce which comes from 
 [the dealers] ought always to be listened to with great precaution,  and 
 ought never to be adopted till after having been long examined, not only 
 with the most scrupulous, but also the most suspicious attention. 
   It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same 
 with that of the public,  who have generally an interest to deceive  and 
 even to oppress the public,  and who accordingly have on many occasions, 
 both deceived and oppressed it. 
 ---------------------[Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, concluding Book I.]