Re: Linking and breaking news

On Mon, 01 Feb 1999, Edward Branham <ebb[_at_]usa.net> wrote:
>
> Best Practices:
>
> 1) Don't use their logo on your site without permission, and

Yes, in general. But note that in the Shetland settlement it was a *condition* that the banner (newspaper logo) be used. We're talking ego-psychology here more than law...

> 2) Don't show their content in a frame that could be construed as
> hiding them as the source of the information.

Can't think of an exception to this :-)

3) Be very, very careful if linking to a site with whose owner you have had a previous legal run-in :-)

--
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.]