Deep Linking Laws

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There's some interesting legal scuffles going on right now that just might one day change the way we do things around here. Check out this ABCNews article which details "deep linking" and some folks who are fighting it. It's difficult to really summarize, but lets just say that it could make directly linking to articles that are a few subpages down something we have to ask permission to do each time. Thanks Kaiser note: There was an earlier story about this on Wired Thanks indeego

And finally, it means people should take little for granted as long-established copyright law continues to collide with the Internet. When is a link a copy, and when is it just a link? "We don't know how copyright law applies to the Web," says Von Lohmann. "When you visit a Web page, you are making a copy in your browser. Nearly eight years after the Web [became commercial], we still don't have a good legal analysis of that."

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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