Re: Linking and breaking news

From: Dan L Burk <BURKDANL[_at_]shu.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:39:57 -0500

On 02/02/99, Mike Holderness <mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Dan L. Burk <burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Well, actually, TotalNews settled, so it isn't much help. There is
> > an unpublished opinon in Shetland Times, but it is fairly narrow.
>
> Shetland Times settled, too:
> http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/tel-shet.htm
>
> The offer of settlement, which I am assured the actual
> settlement closely follows, used to be available on the
> Shetland News site, linked from the above. There I
> summarise all the significant points.

For an analysis of the Shetland Times case, see James P. Connolly & Scott Cameron, "Fair Dealing in Webbed Links of Shetland Yarns," 1998 J. INFO. L. & TECH. <http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/copright/98_2conn/>

For analysis of the U.S. cases, see Dan L. Burk, "Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages," 1998 J. INFO. L. & TECH. <http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/intprop/98_2burk/>;

see also Edward A. Cavazos & Coe F. Miles, "Copyright on the WWW: Linking and Liability," 4 RICH. J.L. & TECH. 3, (1997) <http://www.richmond.edu/~jolt/v4i2/cavazos.html>.

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Dan L. Burk
Seton Hall University
burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu

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